caparisoned

IPA: kɑpˈɛrʌsʌnd

adjective

  • (of a horse or elephant) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • Dressed in richly ornamented finery.
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Examples of "caparisoned" in Sentences

  • Liveried men and gaily caparisoned horses filled the area to capacity.
  • This horse is called the caparisoned horse because of its ornamental coverings.
  • And somewhere in the shadow of an old fort in Rajasthan, a caparisoned elephant weeps quietly into the desert sand.
  • (In this entry, "ink erasers" have been updated to "toner cartridges," but the wonderfully illustrative word "caparisoned" remains.
  • When Queen Elizabeth came in sight, glittering with jewels and mounted on a brightly caparisoned palfrey, Will staggered to his feet and pushed the shutters open wider.
  • His mount was caparisoned in flowing crimson silks emblazoned with the golden lion of House Lannister, and the white cloak of a Kingsguard knight flowed from his shoulders.
  • To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.

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