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palfrey
/ˈpɔːl.fɹi/
name 2noun 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
beautiful, white, white
PALFREY + NOUN
fleet
PREP.
on, upon
Definitions
noun
1
A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).
Five warriors seiz'd me yestermorn, / Me, even me, a maid forlorn: / They choked my cries with force and fright, / And tied me on a palfrey white. / The palfrey was as fleet as wind, / And they rode furiously behind.
The eye of father and sister alike forgot every other object while watching the evolutions of the young and graceful boy, who realised the descriptions of romance as, his golden curls dancing on the wind, his cheek flushed with exercise, and his large blue eyes dilated and flashing with triumph, he ruled the snow-white palfrey by a wave of the hand and an imperceptible pressure of the knee. It seemed as if the docile creature intuitively divined his will.
name
1
A surname from Middle English.
2
A suburb of Walsall, Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0097).
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Five warriors seiz'd me yestermorn, / Me, even me, a maid forlorn: / They choked my cries with force and fright, / And tied me on a palfrey white. / The palfrey was as fleet as wind, / And they rode f
Wiktionary02
The eye of father and sister alike forgot every other object while watching the evolutions of the young and graceful boy, who realised the descriptions of romance as, his golden curls dancing on the w
Wiktionary03
The seneschal rode in advance with two heralds, followed by the duchess in a riding-habit of green silk, mounted upon a beautiful palfrey.
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