painted horse
Americannoun
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Another scene has her dragging puddles of urine down endless corridors and a third superimposes her on the rear end of a beautifully painted horse.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane.
From Time Magazine Archive
The painted horse, the tiny tree, the letter M stitched with sequins.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
She walked to a painted horse head and stroked its opalescent mane.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
They had been drawn on the plaster, by that confounded soldier-artist, with a lead-pencil I felt worse deceived and more chagrined than the Greek pony that neighed at the painted horse of Apelles!
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
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