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- noun Plural form of
nosebag .
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Examples
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In behaving like a simple horse, Dobbin, who is richly rewarded with nosebags and thoroughbred fillies, has committed the ultimate crime: he's set a bad example to their children.
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As ever, there are claims on money from foreign racing, and even virtual racing, as if the penny has yet to drop that virtual horses do not require virtual owners or virtual nosebags.
Eight years on, and the bookies and racing are as far apart as ever 2010
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He let them both eat some oats from canvas nosebags while he collected rocks from the clearing.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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Free of the nosebags, the horses drank from a pool of water in a depression in the smooth tan ledge.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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That was another score for the Orient Express: we were hardly out of Paris before we had the nosebags on, and I have to concede that there was nothing wrong with the grub on offer in the opulent dining salon with its little pink shades and snowy cloths and silver and crystal and swift service.
Watershed 2010
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The barrow of ginger beer stood, a queer derelict, black against the burning sky, and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pawing the ground.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Having said that, wait until tory boy Cameron gets in and we will see what size nosebags they require.
Spin While You're Minging juliette 2009
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The bored horses stamped occasionally and nudged at their nosebags, blowing their vaporous breath into the morning air.
The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007
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The arrieros unpacked and dismantled their beasts, let the mules roll, and put all four in shelter with their nosebags, and then went in search of fuel.
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The barrow of ginger beer stood, a queer derelict, black against the burning sky, and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pawing the ground.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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