Pray, Mrs. Felix Lorraine, can you tell me what a martingale is?
"I bet you what you like you don't get in," said the young Marquis of martingale.
Their bridle has but a simple snaffle-bit, and no martingale.
The gaub lines or back ropes go from the martingale in-board.
Hoist up the martingale and rig it, and reeve the martingale stay and gaub-line.
If a martingale is used, I much prefer a running to a standing one.
Major martingale tugged at his mustache and looked at her in surprise.
I'm sure I can get old martingale to let you write a letter.
It came from the right, from the room Major martingale used as an office.
"You can't use the telephone," Major martingale told her sharply.
1580s, from Middle French martingale (16c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Provençal martegalo, fem. of martegal "inhabitant of Martigue," making the etymological sense "worn in the manner of the people of Martigue;" or perhaps from Spanish almartaga, word for a sort of halter or rein, from Arabic almartak, in which case it might have been influenced in form by the Provençal word.
