PALFREY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palfrey mean? 

• PALFREY (noun)
  The noun PALFREY has 1 sense:

1. especially a light saddle horse for a woman

  Familiarity information: PALFREY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALFREY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Especially a light saddle horse for a woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("palfrey" is a kind of...):

mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

Half a mile further, where the road topped a hill, they looked back, and the Lady Mary on her white palfrey was still where they had left her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To his surprise she burst out a-laughing, and, spurring her palfrey, dashed off down the glade, with her page riding behind her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sat perched on a high bay horse, and held on to the bridle of a spirited black palfrey, the hides of both glistening from a long run.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lady Loring rode her palfrey at her lord's bridle-arm, for she would see him as far as the edge of the forest, and ever and anon she turned her hard-lined face up wistfully to him and ran a questioning eye over his apparel and appointments.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)