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Percheron

noun
1.
One of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery.





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... read it, and this inscription might be a part of the play. The "pagus perticensis" lies a short drive to the west, some fifteen or twenty miles on the road to Le Mans, and in history is known as the Comte du Perche, although its memory is now preserved chiefly by its famous breed of Percheron horses. Probably the horse also dates from the crusades, and may have carried Richard Coeur-de-Lion, but in any case the count of that day was a vassal of Richard, and one of his intimate friends, whose memory is preserved forever by a ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams


Words linked to "Percheron" :   dray horse, draught horse, draft horse


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