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单词 mourning horse
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mourning horse
mourning horse n. Obsolete a horse belonging to a deceased person, led riderless and draped with black in a funeral procession.
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mourning horse1695
1695 London Gaz. No. 3059/1 Then followed the Mourning Horse, led by the Lord Viscount Villers, Master of the Horse to Her late Majesty, attended by two Equerries.
1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough III. 418 The second Mourning-Horse, covered with black Cloth.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxv. 109 To take his mourning horse by the bridle, to follow his hearse, as he directed thee.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. iv. 282 An English funeral..is made up of show and gloomy parade: mourning carriages, mourning horses, mourning plumes, and hireling mourners.
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