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destrier
[ des-tree-er, de-streer ]
noun
, Archaic.
- a warhorse; charger.
destrier
/ ˈdɛstrɪə /
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of destrier1
C13: from Old French, from destre right hand, from Latin dextra; from the fact that a squire led a knight's horse with his right hand
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Example Sentences
They had even ripped up his destrier, so that presently he had to mount another.
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He caught the destrier by the bridle, and led him before the stricken man.
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A steed led by the squire in dester was the destrier or dextrarius, or war-horse.
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Valery brought Simon's favorite war-horse, the pearl-gray destrier called Brillant.
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It would have been a pleasant one had not Heriot and Destrier pretended all sorts of things about our previous acquaintance.
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