carriage horse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of carriage horse
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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The accident comes a week after a carriage horse called Deniz died in Central Park from eating a toxic plant, according to the initial autopsy results.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
In her box stall on 52nd Street, Fintzi’s shaggy draft horse Stella, a Chicago carriage horse until that city banned the practice in 2020, nibbled hay on a recent afternoon.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
A former carriage horse needed a retirement home.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020
In the third trailer was a spectacular black carriage horse that would carry a saddle draped with two of King’s guitars.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2015
Accordingly I told Peter to saddle the toughest-mouthed, hardest-trotting carriage horse in the stable.
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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