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destrier

[ des-tree-er, de-streer ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. a warhorse; charger.


destrier

/ ˈdɛstrɪə /

noun

  1. an archaic word for warhorse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of destrier1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English destrer, from Anglo-French, variant of Old French destrier, literally, “(horse) led at the right hand,” from unrecorded Vulgar Latin dextrārius (equus), equivalent to Latin dext(e)r “right-hand” ( dexter ) + -ārius -ary
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Word History and Origins

Origin of destrier1

C13: from Old French, from destre right hand, from Latin dextra; from the fact that a squire led a knight's horse with his right hand
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Example Sentences

They had even ripped up his destrier, so that presently he had to mount another.

He caught the destrier by the bridle, and led him before the stricken man.

A steed led by the squire in dester was the destrier or dextrarius, or war-horse.

Valery brought Simon's favorite war-horse, the pearl-gray destrier called Brillant.

It would have been a pleasant one had not Heriot and Destrier pretended all sorts of things about our previous acquaintance.

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