headstall

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When Chaplin was made Viscount in 1916, his arms consisted partly of a "chest-nut-colored race horse in a white headstall."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He got it out, reached forward and cut the headstall.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

He turned back, slipped the bit in Dox’s mouth, and laced the big flop ears into the headstall.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

He let them feel the red saddle, and showed them the brass chain throat-latch on the bridle and the big brass buttons at each temple where the headstall and brow band crossed.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck