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 Übersetzung für 'palfrey' von Englisch nach Deutsch
NOUN   a palfrey | palfreys
equest.zool.
palfrey
Zelter {m}
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Übersetzung für 'palfrey' von Englisch nach Deutsch

palfrey
Zelter {m}equest.zool.
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • "But in mine opinion, he deserves to be set upon a palfrey (horse), and led up and down in triumph through New Canaan, with a collar of Jurdans about his neck, as was one of like desert in Richard the Second's time through the streets of London, that men might know where to find a quacksalver (quack)."
  • The word palfrey refers to a small riding horse which is particularly suitable for women.
  • In 1216 all of the Earl's lands were supposed to have been restored to him, but Chinnor was granted to Walter de Vernon's grandson Hugh de la Mere in exchange for two palfrey horses and a term of service at Wallingford Castle.
  • In 1204 he or a later Ralph Bluet gave a palfrey horse in exchange for a licence to enclose an area of land south-east of the former Roman town as a deer park.
  • A palfrey is a type of horse that was highly valued as a riding horse in the Middle Ages.

  • Zima gives a palfrey to Messer Francesco Vergellesi, who in return suffers him to speak with his wife. She keeping silence, he answers in her stead, and the sequel is in accordance with his answer.
  • He tried to enter the city carrying the cross but he was stopped until he dismounted his palfrey, and took off his imperial robes and boots.
  • It was probably just previous to this that he had incurred the king's displeasure, and been obliged to pay a fine of one hundred marks and a palfrey as the price of his restoration to the king's favour.
  • A "white palfrey" appears in the fairy tale "Virgilius the Sorcerer" by Andrew Lang.
  • The destrier was specifically for use in battle or tournament; for everyday riding, a knight would use a palfrey, and his baggage would be carried on a sumpter horse (or packhorse), or possibly in wagons.

  • ' (first published in "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" in 1828; retitled 'The Good Man of Alloa' in "A Queer Book"): An old man lamenting his lack of riches to dispense to the needy is taken by a lady on an amphibious palfrey to collect royal booty from a sunken ship.
  • A reference to it is also made in "Henry VI, Part II", in a speech by the rebel Jack Cade: "all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass".
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