jennet
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Middle English genet, from Old French genet, from Old Catalan genet or Old Spanish ginete (“small fast horse; light horseman”), from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanātī), the Zenati or Zenata Berbers, known as excellent horse breeders. Doublet of Zenati.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jennet (plural jennets)
- A female ass or donkey; a jenny.
- A small Spanish horse.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 230:
- Richmondʼs black jennet [...] is a gleaming and well-muscled creature of Spanish breed.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]jenny — see jenny
small Spanish horse
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Further reading
[edit]- “jennet”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “jennet”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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