Caparisoned

Quick meaning: Caparisoned is an adjective meaning (of a horse or elephant) Having a richly ornamented harness.

Meaning

(of a horse or elephant) Having a richly ornamented harness.

More Meanings

1. Dressed in richly ornamented finery.
2. simple past and past participle of caparison

Example Sentences

Nevertheless, a good Turkish meal was enjoyed in the merry company of Customs men and divers gaily-caparisoned officials.

Preceded by the richly caparisoned guards, care had been taken to give them the appearance of an escort necessary to dignity—but not to security.

She was tall and angular, and held her head very high; it was surmounted with wonderful turbans and plumages, and indeed the four ladies were caparisoned altogether in a manner of their own.

Every kind of harness is used; some is well blacked and greased and glittering with brass, others are almost as grey with dust as the donkey itself. Some of the jackasses are gaudily caparisoned in an old carriage-harness, which fits it like a man’s coat on a boy’s back, while the plated silver ornaments are pink, with the copper showing through; others have rope traces and belly-bands, and not a few indulge in old cotton handkerchiefs for pads.

Synonyms for caparisoned

Depending on context, synonyms include clad, clothed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clad, clothed, barded, beribboned, bonneted, epauleted.

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