palfrey
IPA: pˈæɫfri
noun
- (historical) A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).
- A surname from Middle English.
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Examples of "palfrey" in Sentences
- I'll hunt out the palfrey costs, also.
- Jess halted her palfrey as they came to a choice of ways.
- Long story short, Palfreys were horses capable of an ambling gait.
- The unicorn sometimes paced next to the palfrey, and sometimes not.
- Then he jumps on the maned palfrey, which is now ready for inspection.
- There are no historical examples of a knight riding a palfrey to battle.
- King Robert was mounted on a small palfrey and armed only with a battle axe.
- Even the most rational people can be predictably irrational, Palfrey concludes.
- A palfrey is a type of horse highly valued as a riding horse in the Middle Ages.
- According to the dictionary that comes with Mac OS X 10.5, a "palfrey" is "a docile horse used for ordinary riding."
- Kathie and the twins and Alan have the other corner with their doll's house, a tail-less hobby horse, known both as the "palfrey" and the
- She rode a nervous oat-colored palfrey that had no name, and led the second horse, a blind and almost deaf ancient who long ago had been called Rinaldo and was now simply Rin.
- She had been even prettier than he had thought her yesterday, on her silver-roan, long-tailed 'palfrey'; and it seemed to him, self-critical in the brumous October gloaming and the outskirts of London, that only his boots had shone throughout their two-hour companionship.
- Lunete mounts the palfrey which is brought without delay, and, as they ride, she tells her how she had been accused and charged with treason, and how the pyre was already kindled upon which she was to be laid, and how he had come to help her in just the moment of her need.