Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered with a caparison or decorated cloth, as a horse; decked; adorned.
  • In heraldry, harnessed: used of a horse when saddled and prepared for the field.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a horse Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • adjective Dressed in richly ornamented finery.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of caparison.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings)

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  • "He had not, therefore, returned home the same way but had taken the quicker route to Jewry by going over the bridge and passing through the town so that he could see the carriages and caparisoned horses of the visiting Jews in Chaim's stable."

    Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin, p 37 of the Berkley paperback edition

    February 24, 2012