The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary

2 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)

< select a category
2 [equestrian] words
tumbril
bay horse
help & settings
[x]
help with word

bay horse

help with synonyms  synonyms: bayard ???
help with tags  tags: [equestrian]
help with definition
► definition
Definition:
of a horse, having a reddish brown coat w/ darker legs and tail

image relating to bay horse
photo: by Montanabw, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license,

help with use text
► uses
Uses:
He whistled softly through his teeth and a wide-browed bay horse put its head out, blowing through its nostrils.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
---
And the horses! There were Windsor Greys and Cleveland Bays and Belgium Blacks.

Anita Hughes. Christmas in London, p.193 (2017)
---
image relating to bay horse
Thus pleyneth Iohn, as he gooth by the wey
Toward the Mille, and Bayard in his hond

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, p.118
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
---
under the massive portico, Sir Percy's magnificent bays were impatient pawing the ground.

Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
---
He opened the door, and Vronsky went into the horse-box, dimly lighted by one little window. In the horse-box stood a dark bay mare, with a muzzle on, picking at the fresh straw with her hoofs.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
---
He took off the saddle and turned the blanket inside out to dry. Then the barley was finished and he led the bay horse out and turned him free to graze on every unfenced inch of the world.

John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.404 (1952)
---
both he and his companion (who was a brown bay) appeared to be much surprised: the latter felt the lappet of my coat, and finding it to hang loose about me, they both looked with new signs of wonder.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
help with search help with search