jennet

• “Perhaps a jennet was a horse kept solely for pleasure, whose mane was suffered to grow to a considerable length, and was then ornamented with platting, &c.”

  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

• “There are other most beautiful horses, particularly a dappled jennet, which is ridden by a figure that has all the body covered with scales after the manner of a fish; which is copied from the Column of Trajan, wherein the figures have armour of that kind; and it is thought that such armour is made from the skins of crocodiles.”

  Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo

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  Inspirational Interior Design of the Day : Black, White and Yellow

• “Her jennet tossed its head back and whickered at the smell, tail flicking at the insects.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD

• “There was Hugh, on his favourite self-willed grey, with his son on his saddle-bow, Aline, unruffled by the haste of her preparations for leaving town, on her white jennet, her maid and friend Constance pillion behind a groom, a second groom following with the pack-pony on a leading rein, and the two pilgrims to Saint Asaph merrily escorted by this family party.”

  Fictionaut: His Disposition

• “And she signed a little cross on the air between them before she wheeled her jennet into the lefthand track.”

  Fictionaut: His Disposition

• “Thou thinkest it is in England as in Flanders, where a city-bred burgher of Ghent, Liege, or Ypres, is as distinct an animal from a knight of Hainault, as a Flanders wagon-horse from a Spanish jennet.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• “The foremost of these was a young female, most elegantly attired, and mounted upon a Spanish jennet, which she reined with singular grace and dexterity.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• “Burgundian yeomen, tall and active-looking men, ready mounted themselves, and holding two saddled horses — the one accoutred for war, the other a spirited jennet, for the purposes of the journey.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• “His Highness hath also sent a couple of horses for his use, — one an ambling jennet for the road, and another a strong barbed horse of Flanders, in case he bath aught to do.”

  Anne of Geierstein

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