Crossword clues for palfrey
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palfrey \Pal"frey\, n. [OE. palefrai, OF. palefrei, F. palefroi, LL. palafredus, parafredus, from L. paraveredus a horse for extraordinary occasions, an extra post horse; Gr. para` along, beside + L. veredus a post horse.]
A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.
--Chaucer.-
A small saddle horse for ladies.
--Spenser.Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200 (mid-12c. as a surname), "saddle horse for ordinary riding (opposed to a war horse), small horse for ladies," from Old French palefroi (11c.) and directly from Medieval Latin palafredus, altered by dissimilation from Late Latin paraveredus "post horse for outlying districts" (6c.), originally "extra horse," from Greek para "beside, secondary" (see para-) + Latin veredus "post horse; light, fast horse used by couriers," from Gaulish *voredos, from Celtic *wo-red- (cognates: Welsh gorwydd "horse," Old Irish riadaim "I ride"), from PIE root *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)). The Latin word passed to Old High German as pfarifrid, where in modern German it has become the usual word for "horse" (Pferd).
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women.
WordNet
n. especially a light saddle horse for a woman
Wikipedia
The term Palfrey may refer to:
- Palfrey, a light riding horse common in the Middle Ages
- Palfrey (surname), people with the surname Palfrey
- Palfrey, West Midlands, a locality in the town of Walsall
- Palfrey Island, part of the Lizard Island Group 270 km north of Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Palfrey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Daf Palfrey (born 1973), Welsh television, film and video director, producer and writer
- Deborah Jeane Palfrey (1956–2008), operated an escort agency in Washington, D.C., convicted in 2008 of racketeering, money laundering, etc.
- Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831–1889), American historian, born in Boston, Massachusetts son of J. G. Palfrey
- John G. Palfrey (1796–1881), American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- John Palfrey (born 1972), faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
- Judith Palfrey (born 1943), the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
- Lisa Palfrey, Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of Rhiannedd Frost in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm
- Sarah Palfrey Cooke (1912–1996), female tennis player from the United States
- Sean Palfrey, Welsh professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation
- Simon Palfrey, English Scholar at Oxford University and a Fellow in English at Brasenose College, Oxford University
- Stephen Palfrey Webb (1804–1879), 3rd & 12th Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1842–1845, 1860–1862) and 6th Mayor of San Francisco (1854–1855)
- Thomas Palfrey, currently (as of 2007) the Flintridge Professor of Economics and Political Science at the California Institute of Technology
- William Palfrey (1741–1780), American Patriot born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Yolande Palfrey (1957–2011), British actress
Usage examples of "palfrey".
And I was there, you know, when Palfrey thought you had plunged to your death.
I had better go there directly or Palfrey will flee the country with all the Channing money.
Clare felt the chill through her wool cloak as she rode her palfrey slowly through the crowded street.
Angie looked and saw Brian, still in his armor, but riding a palfrey rather than his war horse, taking a circuit away from the lists, by the woods and down to the other large tent, where he dismounted and went inside.
Angie, as he was leading the palfrey by its reins, Angie on it, out of the woods behind the tents that concealed their approach from the crowd in the stands.
Leisurely, she reined the palfrey around so that she faced the distant stands, although Mnrogar still sat facing down the lists.
Ned Dunster, tabard and all and walking behind Angie riding the palfrey, led out the huge black animal with its rider, and positioned him properly at the near end of the list.
They made swift progress, accordingly, but still Jim found himself counting the seconds until they were beyond the stands, and had brought the palfrey up behind them, tethered him there, and walked normally out to join the rest of the crowd.
And all the time, though it was not tied and was by no means a cold-blooded beast, the palfrey had not moved, standing still as a stone.
Lords and ladies looked again and again at his young wife on her white palfrey, its tail trailing and shimmering like her blue silk gown, the delicate openwork of its mane as dainty as the lace kerchief tucked between her breasts or her slender gloved hand which held the caparisoned reins.
Peter Palfrey likewise has built himself a house, and so has Balch, and Norman, and Woodbury.
They choked my cries with wicked might, And bound me on a palfrey white: As sure as Heaven shall pity me, I cannot tell what men they be.
Jadrek had his own horse now, a gentle palfrey that had belonged to Mertis, a sweet-tempered bay gelding with a gait as comfortable as any beast Tarma had ever encountered.
Jadrek mounted his own palfrey with a grunt of effort, and rode it in close beside Kethry, so that he could steady her from the side.
Kethry kept drifting in and out of awareness, and sliding out of her saddle as she lost her hold on the world, livery time she started to fall, Jadrek had to rein in both Hellsbane and his palfrey to keep her from falling over.