jennet
/ˈdʒɛnɪt
/noun
A kind of small Spanish horse.We've got spotted hyena, cheetah, some of the smaller carnivores, jennets and things like that....
- The two cousins and their jennet symbolically parallel the uneasy relations between colonial tourist and colonized native.
- Meanwhile, in Rome, on ‘a bright winter's day the [victorious] Mercantorio Colonna entered the city on a white jennet.’
Origin
Late Middle English: via French from Spanish jinete 'light horseman', from Spanish Arabic Zenāta, the name of a Berber people famous for horsemanship.