Palfrey Definition

pôlfrē
palfreys
noun
A saddle horse, esp. a gentle one for a woman.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A surname​.

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Other Word Forms of Palfrey

Noun

Singular:
palfrey
Plural:
palfreys

Origin of Palfrey

  • Middle English from Old French palefrei from Medieval Latin palafrēdus alteration of Late Latin paraverēdus post horse for secondary routes, extra horse Greek para extra, beyond per1 in Indo-European roots Latin verēdus post horse (of Celtic origin reidh- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Palfrey Sentence Examples

  • While Edward's army paused, Bruce, mounted on a palfrey, was attacked by Sir Henry Bohun.

  • The significance of Parkman's work consists partly in the success with which he has depicted the North-American Indians, those belated children of the Stone Age, who have been so persistently misunderstood alike by romancers, such as Cooper, and by detractors like Dr Palfrey.

  • See the bibliography appended to AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, and also General Palfrey's A ntietam and Fredericksburg.

  • The sh of Essex was to take one palfrey from the As (C 60/14 m. 3 ).

  • In the words of Dean Milman, "the superior, once a man bowed to the earth with humility, care-worn, pale, emaciated, with a coarse habit bound with a cord, with naked feet, had become an abbot on his curvetting palfrey, in rich attire, with his silver cross before him, travelling to take his place amid the lordliest of the realm."

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