Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the middle ages and later, a stable-servant who had charge of horses, and particularly of the riding-horses or palfreys. Also written
palfrenier .
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Examples
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He has a wondrous respect for English "gentlemen-sportsmen;" he imitates their clubs -- their love of horse-flesh: he calls his palefrenier a groom, wears blue birds's-eye neck-cloths, sports his pink out hunting, rides steeple-chases, and has his Jockey Club.
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Aussi avait-elle demandé à ses plus fidèles serviteurs de l'accompagner : Sylvie, sa servante aussi dévouée que débrouillarde, Kaspar, son garde si loyal, et Henri, le jeune palefrenier qui avait toujours eu une place particulière dans son coeur.
Leçons de plaisir - Happy Book Birthday to my French edition! Victoria Janssen 2009
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[FN#124] There is a terrible truth in this satire, which reminds us of the noble dame who preferred to her handsome husband the palefrenier laid, ord et infâme of Queen Margaret of Navarre
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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124 There is a terrible truth in this satire, which reminds us of the noble dame who preferred to her handsome husband the palefrenier laid, ord et infâme of Queen Margaret of Navarre (Heptameron No. xx.).
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