单词 | coach horse breed |
释义 | > as lemmascoach horse breed As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, for, or relating to a coach horse or coach horses (sense 1)’, as in coach horse breed, coach horse harness, coach horse type.In quot. 1590 in a scene in which kings defeated by Tamburlaine are harnessed and bridled like horses, and made to pull his chariot. ΚΠ 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I8v Your Maiesty already hath deuisde A meane, as fit as may be to restraine These coltish coach-horse tongues from blasphemy. 1657 Sir F. Drake Let. in Lady Elliott-Drake Family & Heirs Sir Francis Drake (1911) 415 Two coach horse harness of the best fashion, and strong. 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. xx. 253 The beasts of labour, principally horses, are of the saddle or the coach-horse breed. 1832 Chelmsford Chron. 9 Nov. (advt.) Valuable freehold and leasehold houses, coach horse stabling, &c. 1894 Cultivator & Country Gentleman (Albany, N.Y.) 31 May 426/2 Some [of the horses in a sale] undoubtedly had a cross of coach horse blood. 1911 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 72 107 Sultan showed much quality for a Cleveland at that period, and partook largely of the Coach Horse type, while he had a very good action. 2017 J. Haas et al. Horse-lover's Encycl. (ed. 2) 58/2 Coach horse breeds and Thoroughbreds provide the foundation for the modern warmblood sport horse. < as lemmas |
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