How To Use Caparison In A Sentence
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Medina of the great caravan from Damascus, numbering 7,000 souls — grandees in gorgeous litters of green and gold, huge white Syrian dromedaries, richly caparisoned horses and mules, devout Hajis, sherbet sellers, water carriers, and a multitude of camels, sheep and goats. 122 Lastly Burton and his friends pilgrimaged to the holy Mount Ohod with its graves of
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Liveried men and gaily caparisoned horses filled the area to capacity.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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If you chance to take an elegant drive up the 'Fifth Avenue,' and meet a dashing equipage -- say with horses terribly caparisoned, a purloined crest on the carriage-door, a sallow-faced footman covered up in a green coat, all over big brass buttons, stuck up behind, and a whiskey-faced coachman half-asleep in a great hammercloth, be sure it belongs to some snob who has not a sentence of good English in his head.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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Then came three small, ambling, stoutish long -- tailed ponies, the biggest not above fourteen hands high; these were the barbs intended for mine host, the skipper, and myself, caparisoned with high demipique old -- fashioned
Tom Cringle's Log
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In less than the specified time he returned by another way, with a good cloak hanging over his arm, a good sword girded by his side, and leading his good horse caparisoned for the journey.
Master Humphrey's Clock
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Zari parasols, richly caparisoned elephants, glittering gold-embossed palanquins and symbols like Mount Meru and the mighty Garuda became royal symbols of Indonesia.
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Outside there would be gorgeously caparisoned elephants and horses with rich housings, palanquins and teams of palanquin bearers, four in hand coaches, and subsequently Rolls Royces and Daimlers.
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Leondard Opdycke notes, "These devices [imprese] so much in vogue during the 16th century in Italy, were the 'inventions' which Giovio (ca. 1480) says 'the great lords and noble cavaliers of our time like to wear on their armour, caparisons and banners, to signify a part of their generous thoughts.' [fig. 4.16] They consisted of a figure or picture, and a motto nearly always in Latin" (Book of the Courtier, 329n40).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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In the dead of night, the caparisoned elephants illuminated by the dancing flames of torches and surrounded by the aroma of burning oil assume an almost ethereal look.
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The shield bears the inscription ‘Magic Naturalis’; behind Herbert is a caparisoned knight's horse, evidence of a battle.
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A well-caparisoned knight's courser had inexplicably taken their place, and stood munching the trampled grass.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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A band blows solemn notes as two riders on magnificently caparisoned horses trot to the president's box, salute, and trot back to raucous cheers.
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The caparison horse is led behind the caisson tacked with an empty saddle with rider's boots reversed in the stirrups, a symbol of a warrior who will never ride again.
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Spencer, caparisoned for high seas by Fifth Avenue's highest haberdasher, stood off in a little cove of bags and baggage, yachting-cap well down over his eyes, the nattiest thing in nautical ulsters buttoned to the chin.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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When Queen Elizabeth came in sight, glittering with jewels and mounted on a brightly caparisoned palfrey, Will staggered to his feet and pushed the shutters open wider.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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As the cavalcade began lining up in the main axis, with a ringing of gongs and bells, a caparisoned temple elephant and a third rath carrying a huge golden horse joined the procession.
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The visitors will be accorded a traditional welcome, complete with three caparisoned elephants and a panchavadyam performance.
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Again there are at least 15 pictures of caparisoned elephants, horses, infantry and jemadars and the royal couple in action.
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Gros specialized in battle scenes, rendering with eclat the uniforms of the officers and the caparisons of the horses.
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With paste and scissors I procured this caparison; and my revenue is the uninquiring public; gallows and gaol are too powerful on the highway; picking and treadmilling are terrors to burglars; but in _my_ line of theft I sleep free from the thought of them.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892
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Additional corroboration of the French style of the embroidery - both on the King's Bed and on the suit - derives from its close similarity with that of the horse caparisons and saddles given by Louis XIV to Charles XI of Sweden in 1673.
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Financial constraints came in the way of the project and the king sold elephant accoutrements, mainly caparisons which belonged to the Poornathrayeesa Temple, to fund the project.
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In elephant-crazy Kerala, caparisoned jumbos are an essential part of the processions that accompany every celebration.
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The duke is at the forefront of the riders, on a big bay warhorse, caparisoned with a saddle of red leather trimmed with golden nails, his personal standard before him, and three men-at-arms riding around him.
The Red Queen
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On the 10th day, the ruler, in silk and priceless gems, wended his way in procession through the crowded streets on the gorgeously caparisoned elephant.
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We passed Cabul merchants peddling their dried fruit on shaggy-haired camels; to these succeeded, in more lonesome portions of the road, small groups of Korkas, wretched remnants of one of the autochthonal families of Central India -- even lower in the scale of civilization than the Gónds, among whom they are found; and to these the richly-caparisoned elephants of some wealthy
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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Thousands of curious onlookers positioned themselves along the road as well as on top of buildings enjoying the tableaux and floats as they moved in procession behind three caparisoned elephants.
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These were the planters of the neighbouring country, many of whom came nightly to visit the theatre, and this from very considerable distances; forming such an audience as cannot be seen elsewhere in this hackney-coach age; indeed, to look on so many fine horses, with their antique caparisons, piquetted about the theatre, recalled the palmy days of the Globe and Bear-garden.
Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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One evening under the shadow of the Red Fort I see a passing wedding procession: the groom rides a caparisoned white horse and is followed by a band in uniform with wailing trumpets and banging drums.
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Each elephant is caparisoned in glittering gold, red, silver or blue cloth, studded with brilliants and lit with lamps.
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To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.
CORONATION DAY
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His mount was caparisoned in flowing crimson silks emblazoned with the golden lion of House Lannister, and the white cloak of a Kingsguard knight flowed from his shoulders.
Trial of Seven
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Their steeds, caparisoned with silk, lacquered leather and gold buckles, caracoled and curvetted as their riders put them through their paces.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
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A cultural treat, complete with caparisoned elephants, ‘theyyams’ and ‘thalapoli’ was ready to see the sailors into the waters that will take them to so many destinations over a period of one year.
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There is something both innocent and daring about Simone Martini's richly caparisoned horseman in the Palazzo Pubblico (the visitable part of which goes under the name of the Museo Civico).
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caparison the horses for the festive occasion
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And somewhere in the shadow of an old fort in Rajasthan, a caparisoned elephant weeps quietly into the desert sand.
Sandip Roy: Don't Cry for Them, Rajasthan: Katy Perry and Russell Brand Never Really Loved You
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In the middle of every band there were three horses very richly caparisoned, their saddles being covered by costly furs, or velvet, or stammel broad-cloths.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be.
CORONATION DAY
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As the cavalcade began lining up in the main axis, with a ringing of gongs and bells, a caparisoned temple elephant and a third rath carrying a huge golden horse joined the procession.
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When asked who comes with Petruchio, Biondello responds, ‘O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse’.
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On the fringes of this retinue, lions and crocodiles pounce on their victims while an elephant runs amok, and at the centre is the Navab, enlarged as befits his status, bending from his richly caparisoned mount to slash at a lion.
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For a few minutes no one came forward, but at last a pair of sleek mules, handsomely caparisoned, with a richly adorned palankeen slung between them, the identical equipage of the maharanee which had been harboured in my home, emerged from the crowd, and advanced at a grave pace toward the royal dais.
Tales of Destiny
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The draperies were, frankly, an orange-coloured man-made fibre rather than caparisons of royal purple silk.
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The usual caparison of the Shoshone horse is a halter and saddle. the 1st. consists either of a round plated or twisted cord of six or seven strands of buffaloe's hair, or a throng of raw hide made pliant by pounding and rubing. these cords of bufaloe's hair are about the size of a man's finger and remarkably strong. this is the kind of halter which is prefered
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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He held it 'in fee, in serjeanty, by finding for our lord the King, in his army in Wales, and elsewhere in England, whensoever war should happen, one man with a horse caparisoned or armed for war at his proper costs for forty days to abide in the war aforesaid.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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The eye lingers on the fine features of a musician, or the graceful limbs of a dancing girl or the noble prancing of a caparisoned steed.
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After considering various business proposals, Rajiv Nair settled for selling ‘chamayams’ or caparisons - those decorative pieces that adorn the forehead of elephants during festivals.
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This horse is called the caparisoned horse because of its ornamental coverings.
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Animals and birds in large quantities added motion and color to the street scenes, together with brightly caparisoned elephants, stately camels, and white bullocks with their long horns and dreamy eyes, drawing the little two-wheeled _ekka_, which sometimes carried four occupants.
Travels in the Far East
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The idol of Saraswathi, which was brought out in a procession on a caparisoned elephant from the Thevarakkettu temple at Padmanabhapuram on Monday, is accompanied by that of Munnootti Nanga and Sri Subramania Swami.
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(In this entry, "ink erasers" have been updated to "toner cartridges," but the wonderfully illustrative word "caparisoned" remains.
CJR
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Each elephant supported a richly caparisoned howdah on its back, with gilded sides and red plush seats.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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The presiding deity is taken out on a caparisoned elephant accompanied by other pachyderms in full paraphernalia.
