destrier
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman destrer, destrier, from a Vulgar Latin derivative of dextera (literally “(animal) led by the right hand”), from dexter (“right”).
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Noun[edit]
destrier (plural destriers)
- (historical) A large warhorse, especially of a medieval knight.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 236:
- I am resolved to share or avert the danger; which, that I may the better do, I would crave of thee the use of some palfrey whose pace may be softer than that of my destrier.
- 1855, Al-Mutanabbi, translated by Richard Francis Burton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Dark and the Desert and Destriers me ken, And the Glaive and the Joust, and Paper and Pen.
- A steed.
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See destrier.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
destrier m (plural destriers)
Further reading[edit]
- “destrier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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