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palfrenier arch.|pælfrəˈnɪə(r)|
Forms: 5 palfreynyer, -frenyer, 9 palefrenier, -freneer, palfrenier.
[a. F. palefrenier (1350 in Godef. Compl.), also pare-, palfrenier = It. palafreniere, Sp. palafrenero, Pg. palafreneiro, med.L. pala-, palefrenarius, -frenerius, -fridiarius, orig. paraverēdārius (Lex Baiwar., Capitulare de Villis, Du Cange), f. paraverēdus: see next and -ier 2.]
A man having charge of horses; a groom.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon x. 257 Mawgys sayd to y⊇ palfreynyer that kepte bayerde ‘frende, goo & set the sadell vpon bayerde’..‘syr’, sayd y⊇ palfrenyer, ‘I may not doo it’. 1820Scott Monast. xxxv, A legion of godless lackeys, and palfreniers, and horse-boys. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 74 He calls his palefrenier a groom. 1863Sala Capt. Dangerous II. iv. 147 Palefreneers littered him down with straw, as though he had been a Horse. |