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11 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)
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equipage
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synonyms: appurtenance, assign, impedimenta ???
tags: [equestrian]
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Definition:A term generally used to denote a horse and carriage, sometimes also the accompanying servants as well.Daniel Pool. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, p.304 (1993)
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It was a wonderful equipage, with six great coronets outside, and ragged things behind for I don't know how many footmen to hold on by, and a harrow below them, to prevent amateur footmen from yielding to the temptation.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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I argued, on the contrary, that those plebeians who discovered such eagerness to imitate the dress and equipage of their superiors, would likewise, in time, adopt their maxims and their manners, be polished by their conversation, and refined by their example;
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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their attention was suddenly drawn to the window, by the sound of a carriage; and they perceived a chaise and four driving up the lawn. It was too early in the morning for visitors, and besides, the equipage did not answer to that of any of their neighbours.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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I did so; but had any one in England met such a man as I was, it must either have frightened him, or raised a great deal of laughter; and as I frequently stood still to look at myself, I could not but smile at the notion of my travelling through Yorkshire with such an equipage, and in such a dress.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the ‘voiture’ I had given Céline.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
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the strokes of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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The phaeton was a very handsome affair; the horses arched their necks and lifted up their legs as if they knew they belonged to Doctors' Commons. There was a good deal of competition in the Commons on all points of display, and it turned out some very choice equipages then; though I always have considered, and always shall consider, that in my time the great article of competition there was starch: which I think was worn among the proctors to as great an extent as it is in the nature of man to bear.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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“I dare engage these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour; they contrive little nests and burrows, that they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray!”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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