What is "caparisoned"

Usage examples of "caparisoned".

Besides the multitude of artistes strutting in the procession—spangled and flowing-cloaked and profuse of ostrich plumes—there were four elephants, two camels, twenty or more caparisoned ring horses, a lion and a tiger and a leopard, each in its separate cage wagon.

All the horses were combed and brushed to a high shine, and the liberty horses were caparisoned in their plumes and spangles.

Behind came a considerable cortege: Velja's mother and sister accompanied by an emperor and a crown prince, the circus company and the splendidly caparisoned honor guard, all walking in solemn cadence to a string rendition of Chopin's funeral music.

Its doors were emblazoned with the de Lareinty arms, and its footman handed down from it a blonde young woman gorgeously caparisoned in Worth silks and laces.

They were caparisoned in the same manner as Rire Grist and his cohorts.

That tale comes well caparisoned with questions, which the Appointed might answer if he chose-or if he were potently persuaded.

Each is caparisoned to simulate the piece he represents and in addition he wears that which indicates whether he be slave, a warrior serving a sentence, or a volunteer.

It was bridled and plumed and caparisoned with purple and gold garniture.

They consisted of costly coats of mail, plumed and crested helmets, armor for horses, surcoats em­broidered with gems, greyhounds in velvet collars, falcons wearing silver bells, enameled bottles of the choicest wine, purple and golden cloth and cloaks trimmed with ermine and pearls, 76 horses including six beautiful little palfreys caparisoned in green velvet with crimson tassels, six great war-horses in crimson velvet with gold rosettes, and two others of extra quality named Lion and Abbott.

These were never more fittingly displayed than at the coronation banquet when Coucy, Clisson, and Admiral de Vienne, magnificently mounted on horses caparisoned in cloth of gold down to the ground, served the King’s dishes from horseback.

Mounted on a beautiful horse and leading several others caparisoned in all the heraldic arms belonging to his house, “he rode from side to side in the most graceful manner to the delight of all who saw him, and all praised and honored him for his great air and fine presence.

Ten handsome horses and ten hounds, caparisoned in the arms of Burgundy and conducted by grooms in the Duke’s white-and-scarlet livery, were to make the journey to Turkey, along with saddles of rich work inscribed in “Saracen letters and flowers of overseas,” saddle draperies with buckles in the form of golden roses, fine scarlet cloth of Reims believed un­known in the Orient, and, as a subtle compliment to Bajazet, tapestries of Arras depicting the history of Alexander the Great, from whom he claimed to be directly descended.

To a heavy wooden rail gaily caparisoned horses were tethered, their handsome trap-pings recalling to Blake's memory paintings he had seen of mounted knights of medieval England.

All these pages and servants rode magnificent horses, caparisoned in velvet trimmed with silver fringe, and bells of silver hanging down every here and there.

The procession began with four-and-twenty mules, caparisoned in red, adorned with escutcheons bearing the duke's arms, laden with carved trunks and chests inlaid with ivory and silver.