"Female horse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was merely attempting to make you acquainted with a philological fact,' said I. 'If mare, which in old English, and likewise in vulgar English, signifies a woman, sounds the same as mare, which in modern and polite English signifies a female horse, I can't help it. There is no confusion of sounds in Armenian, not, at least, in the same instance. Belle, in Armenian, woman is ghin, the same word, by-the-by, a sour queen, whereas mare is madagh ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow |
