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Percheron   Listen
Percheron

noun
1.
One of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery.





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"Percheron" Quotes from Famous Books



... March, we wake with the old recognizable nostalgia. It is the last polyp or vestige of our anthropomorphic and primal self, trailing its pathetic little wisp of glory for the one day of the whole calendar. All the rest of the year we are the plodding percheron of commerce, patiently tugging our wain; but on that morning there wambles back, for the nonce, the pang of Eden. We wake at 6 o'clock; it is a blue and golden morning and we feel it imperative to get outdoors as quickly as possible. Not for an ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley


Words linked to "Percheron" :   draft horse, draught horse, dray horse


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