Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horse used by a mounted soldier or officer in battle; especially, in a somewhat poetical sense, the horse of a knight or commander. Compare cuts under
caparisoned and muzzle. - noun A veteran, as a veteran soldier or politician.
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Examples
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I'm calling for a Tiger Team to develop a new Customer Experience Model -- a radical redesign of the old and tired Customer Relationship Management war-horse.
Beverly Macy: Social Influence in Real-Time Beverly Macy 2011
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I'm calling for a Tiger Team to develop a new Customer Experience Model -- a radical redesign of the old and tired Customer Relationship Management war-horse.
Beverly Macy: Social Influence in Real-Time Beverly Macy 2011
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Making great theater once more in the Bronx, begrudgingly, the old war-horse was gaining our respect.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Maybe it's because I always think of my father on his roan war-horse that makes me love horses.
CHAPTER X 2010
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Making great theater once more in the Bronx, begrudgingly, the old war-horse was gaining our respect.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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If you want to see a big Labour beast/broken down old Labour war-horse bluff and bluster then do watch John Prescott on The Politics Show.
Bluster and bluff from John Prescott Not a sheep 2009
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I'm calling for a Tiger Team to develop a new Customer Experience Model -- a radical redesign of the old and tired Customer Relationship Management war-horse.
Beverly Macy: Social Influence in Real-Time Beverly Macy 2011
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"There is the possibility of one mind unconsciously suggesting to another mind," Mrs. Grantly was saying; but through Lute's mind was trooping her father on his great roan war-horse.
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I'm calling for a Tiger Team to develop a new Customer Experience Model -- a radical redesign of the old and tired Customer Relationship Management war-horse.
Beverly Macy: Social Influence in Real-Time Beverly Macy 2011
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Only she, Saxon, daughter of Daisy who had written wonderful poems and of a soldier-father on a roan war-horse, daughter of the strong. generations who hall won half a world from wild nature and the savage Indian -- no, she was not stupid.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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