caparison
Example Sentences
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Nearly every festival in the state includes at least one elephant draped in gold-plated caparisons.
From New York Times • May 26, 2012
Troops in red turbans and elephants in gold caparisons march through New Delhi this week.
From Time Magazine Archive
They withdrew from the ring, carrying the caparisons.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
And while he withstood siege and awaited attack he would rid himself of these unlucky caparisons that had been his mortification and his undoing.
From The Life of the Party by Preston, James M.
He displayed before him also the war horses, with their armour and rich caparisons, and astonished him with the thunder of artillery.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert
