farriery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Sir Joseph, as all are aware, is descended from an English-Jewish blacksmith who expanded his farriery to an art dealer's suite.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a wage of about $60 a month, Smith slept and ate in horse stalls and struggled to keep up with the farriery needs of fifty-four horses.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Italian masters were invited over; the art of managing horses became an universal accomplishment, among the nobility and gentry of England; but most of the professors, both of equitation and farriery, were foreigners.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 by Various
N. B. Neither this disorder, nor its remedy, is mentioned by either Bracken, Bartlet, or any of the modern writers on farriery.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
I was, of course, kept sedulously at work at our business, and, though liking it even less than farriery, learned it well enough.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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