| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb caparison.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (caparison) | 1. Put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion".[Wordnet]. 2. To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse.[Websters]. 3. To aborn with rich dress; to dress.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: caparisoning, caparisoned, caparisons, caparisoner, caparisoners, caparisoningly and caparisonedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CAPARISONING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: caparison
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A cloth or covering laid over the saddle or furniture of a horse, especially a sumpter horse or horse of state.. | 2: [Verb] To cover with a cloth.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant. 19th c. And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom. — Anon., tr. by Lady Charlotte Guest, The Mabinogion/The Dream of Rhonabwy. (references) | 2: [Verb] To dress up a horse or elephant with ornamental coverings. 1593 Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse — Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 5, Scene 3. (references) | |
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