cavallardn.
/kɑːvəˈlɑːd//kavəˈlɑːd/ U.S. dialect.
‘A term used, in Louisiana and Texas, by the caravans which cross the prairies, to denote a band of horses or mules’ (Bartlett).
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1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. 80 Stealing our whole cavallard, consisting of ten head of horses and mules.
1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 208 They..soon obtained a fine cavalyard of horses, which they drove into Arkansas for sale.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds iv. 69 All hands sprang up only to witness our noble cavallard under full headway before a body of Mexican horsemen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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