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Ladies and gentlemen carrying father up and down over peak in America, spotted horse
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appaloosa
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The Appaloosa is an American horse breed best known for its colorful spotted coat pattern. There is a wide range of body types within the breed, stemming from the influence of multiple breeds of horses throughout its history. Each horse's color pattern ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
breed of horses favored by Indian tribes in U.S. West, 1849, either from Opelousa in Louisiana or from Palouse Indians, who lived near the river of that name in Idaho, in which case it probably is a Nez Percé word. Opelousa is perhaps from Choctaw api losa ...
Usage examples of appaloosa.
A group of new scholars is pushing the line that the ancestors of our horse developed in America only as far as mesohippus, which then emigrated to Asia, where it developed into the horse proper, in the form of the Appaloosa, which thus becomes the great ancestor of subsequent breeds.
Magnificent Appaloosas threw up their heads in the other before, in their exuberance, they galloped off around the turf of their enclosure.
The pace of the Appaloosa faltered a little as she noticed him sitting there waiting for her, but she came on steadily after that, startled perhaps by his unexpected presence but obviously unafraid to confront him.
Leo said again, but still not loud enough to offend the horse, an expensive appaloosa, which Leo knew could throw him any time it wanted and would probably take great delight in trampling the hell out of him.
An entire stuffed horse, an Appaloosa, worn and moth-eaten, stood guard in one corner.
His current home was a farm dating back to the eighteenth century, where he raised Appaloosa horsesriding and mediocre golf were his only remaining hobbiesand lived the quiet life of a gentleman farmer.
She looked at the street names: Bryn Mawr Way, Appaloosa Street, Cornflower Road.
Alafair said, and held up a piece of art paper with a pastel drawing of an Appaloosa on it.
A goose-rumped Appaloosa, two old quarterhorses, and one grade horse of indeterminate breeding.
The Appaloosa mare rolled her eyes and twitched, but showed none of the other signs of hysteria displayed by the younger mounts.