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caparisons

n. (plural of caparison English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: caparison)

Usage examples of "caparisons".

But jewels adorned their caparisons, flashing with the glacial colors of Winter.

Harnessed with caparisons of silver was this destrier, this noble charger.

The thunder roared again, closer, and, mixed in it, the ringing of silver caparisons on Faêran horses whose hooves pounded against the great pressure patterns that were the roads of the sky.

These horses, unlike those of the Italian gendarmes, wore no caparisons of dressed leather, which made them more exposed to attack.

My dress, my jewels, my horses and their caparisons, were almost unrivalled in gorgeous Paris, while the lands of my inheritance passed into possession of others.

From plumes and feathered bows to studded caparisons and spangled breast-straps, the war host out of Datha was a sight to inspire dread.

Knights donned riding clothes of leather and saw to the grooming of their horses, plaiting tail and mane with ribbons of gold and silver entwined with bells, or dressing their steeds in brightly colored caparisons: red and blue, gold and green, violet and yellow.

Beyond the table were long high stacks, reeking a bit of perspiration (presumably human), the 900 series, history in its smelliest caparisons, each dark aisle boobytrapped with a metal stool or two.

The horses wore rich caparisons, and the soldiers were outfitted in good armor.