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Caparison   Listen
noun
Caparison  n.  
1.
An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, especially when decorative. "Their horses clothed with rich caparison."
2.
Gay or rich clothing. "My heart groans beneath the gay caparison."


verb
Caparison  v. t.  (past & past part. caparisoned; pres. part. caparisoning)  
1.
To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. "The steeds, caparisoned with purple, stand."
2.
To adorn with rich dress; to dress. "I am caparisoned like a man."





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"Caparison" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Charley's sturdy little figure in such a grotesque caparison. He then went on with the history of the chair, and told the children that, in 1730, King George II. appointed Jonathan Belcher to be governor of Massachusetts in place of the deceased Governor Burner. Mr. Belcher was a native of the province, but had spent ...
— Grandfather's Chair • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... procession: the human shape appears to me as distinctly moulded in the thin vapours as in ourselves; nor would it perhaps ask too great indulgence from our fancy to image amongst the darker forms in the centre of the cloud one bearing the very appearance of a bier,—the plume, and the caparison, and the steeds, and the mourners! Still, as I look, the likeness seems to ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... state made of embroidered velvet and damask, with many coloured silks on the horses. They wave many (standards with) white and coloured tails, and hold them in much esteem — which tails are horses' tails. The elephants in the same way are covered with caparison of velvet and gold with fringes, and rich cloths of many colours, and with bells so that the earth resounds; and on their heads are painted faces of giants and other kinds of great beasts. On the back of each one of them are three or four men, dressed in their quilted tunics, ...
— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell
... by Harrison When arrayed in his batting caparison; If others look worried He never gets flurried, But quite unconcernedly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 21, 1920 • Various
... obliged to caparison their animals; and just as they were about to use some strong arguments to induce their refractory slaves to mount, they were told that "El Hajji" ("the pilgrim") wished to see ...
— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid


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