demi-piqueadj.n.
/ˈdɛmɪpiːk/ A. adj.
Of a saddle: ‘Half-peaked’; having a peak of about half the height of that of the older war-saddle.
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mail-saddle1360
trotter-saddle1381
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limber-saddle1480
pillion1480
side-saddle1493
steel saddle1503
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mail pillowc1532
stock-saddle1537
pad1556
sunk1568
trunk-saddle1569
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Scotch saddle1596
postilion saddle1621
pad-saddle1622
portmanteau-saddle1681
watering saddle1681
cart-saddle1692
demi-pique1695
crook-saddle1700
saddle pad1750
recado1825
aparejo1844
mountain saddle1849
somerset1851
pilch1863
cowboy saddle1880
sawbuck (pack)saddle1881
western saddle1883
cross-saddle1897
centre-fire1921
McClellan1940
poley1957
1695 London Gaz. No. 3104/4 He had on a Demy-Pick Crimson Velvet Saddle.
1761 Earl of Pembroke Mil. Equitation (1778) 9 To be as firm, to work as well, and be quite as much at his ease [on the bare back] as on any demipique saddle.
B. n.
A demi-pique saddle.
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1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 2 Send Williams thither with my saddle-horse and the demi pique.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 167 His rider occupied his demipique, or war-saddle, with an air that shewed it was his familiar seat.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. vi. 256 Two stout ponies..ready saddled, with old-fashioned demipiques, and large holsters at each of the saddlebows.
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