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- noun Plural form of
caparison . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
caparison .
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Examples
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It is true, that certain envious rivals have compared them to birds of prey, scenting mortality from afar, and hovering like vultures on the trail of death, in order to profit by his dart; but such "caparisons," as Mrs. Malaprop says, "are odorous," and we will have nothing to do with them.
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It is true, that certain envious rivals have compared them to birds of prey, scenting mortality from afar, and hovering like vultures on the trail of death, in order to profit by his dart; but such "caparisons," as Mrs. Malaprop says, "are odorous," and we will have nothing to do with them.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Leondard Opdycke notes, "These devices [imprese] so much in vogue during the 16th century in Italy, were the 'inventions' which Giovio (ca. 1480) says 'the great lords and noble cavaliers of our time like to wear on their armour, caparisons and banners, to signify a part of their generous thoughts.' [fig. 4.16] They consisted of a figure or picture, and a motto nearly always in Latin" (Book of the Courtier, 329n40).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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I reached the brow of the hill and saw warriors riding in orderly splendor down the other side, their caparisons bright in the dim snowlight.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I reached the brow of the hill and saw warriors riding in orderly splendor down the other side, their caparisons bright in the dim snowlight.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I reached the brow of the hill and saw warriors riding in orderly splendor down the other side, their caparisons bright in the dim snowlight.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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More than one hundred and twenty-five best United States model wagons and splendid teams with gay caparisons were secured and driven off.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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More than one hundred and twenty-five best United States model wagons and splendid teams with gay caparisons were secured and driven off.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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The caparisons of the royal elephant were of scarlet cloth, richly embroidered with gold.
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The way was lined by ushers and officers in caparisons that gleamed like steel, and beyond their line, so far as my eyes could pierce the gloom, the heads of that enormous crowd extended.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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