palfrey in English
noun
1
a docile horse used for ordinary riding, especially by women.
Equestrian purchases were prominent, and extra horses, especially geldings and palfreys , were obtained and equipped with pommels of gold and silver.
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1. Upon a Baulk, that is, an unploughed ridge of land interposed among the corn, the Laird's trusty palfrey was tethered by the head, and picking a
2. Upon a Baulk, that is, an unploughed ridge of land interposed among the corn, the Laird's trusty palfrey was tethered by the head, and picking a meal of grass.
3. 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