percheron

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For city kids to get that close to a belgium or percheron and or see a real pig (the size alone amazed me) is an experience not to be missed.

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  1. One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

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  1. one of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery

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  • It was a tough and lusty double-ender, built like a percheron, schooner rigged, with a one-lung diesel engine. —  153 - Trouble On Parade
  • For city kids to get that close to a belgium or percheron and or see a real pig (the size alone amazed me) is an experience not to be missed. —  The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories
  • Having been bidden enter, a burly knight mounted upon a giant percheron rode into the lists, all cased in sable armour and carrying a shield which displayed —  Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
  • "Draght horses; carriege horses; riding horses; racing horses; ponyies; percheron from france; Belgain from Beljium; shire clyesdale and saffold punch from great Britain; french coach and German coach; contucky saddle horses; through-breads; Shetland ponies; mushstand ponies; pacers and pintoes." —  The Prairie Child
  • Your true specimen of manuscript reader is the faithful old percheron who is content to go on, year after year, sorting over the literary pemmican that comes before him, inexhaustible in his love for the delicacies of good writing, happy if once or twice a twelve-month he chance upon some winged thing. —  Shandygaff
 

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