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  • noun Plural form of Percheron.

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Examples

  • It was well on to midday, when Buncan's concern was starting to give way to real unease, when an oversize wagon drawn by a pair of Percherons came rattling into the corral.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • They bred with all manner of horses, descendants of the animals that were lost by Cortés and de Soto, draft horses and quarterhorses and thoroughbreds, Morgans and Appaloosas, Percherons and Tennessee walkers, and horses that had been stolen by desperadoes and abandoned when the law got too close.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • They bred with all manner of horses, descendants of the animals that were lost by Cortés and de Soto, draft horses and quarterhorses and thoroughbreds, Morgans and Appaloosas, Percherons and Tennessee walkers, and horses that had been stolen by desperadoes and abandoned when the law got too close.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • They bred with all manner of horses, descendants of the animals that were lost by Cortés and de Soto, draft horses and quarterhorses and thoroughbreds, Morgans and Appaloosas, Percherons and Tennessee walkers, and horses that had been stolen by desperadoes and abandoned when the law got too close.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Ai lub dose big horseys dat are liek teh Clydesdales an the Percherons an stuffz.

    TRANSPORT ACQUIRED - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • He kept a lot of exotics on the grounds, a few parrots and monkeys, but mostly different and unusual breeds of horses, ranging in size from miniature ponies to big draft Percherons.

    Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

  • He kept a lot of exotics on the grounds, a few parrots and monkeys, but mostly different and unusual breeds of horses, ranging in size from miniature ponies to big draft Percherons.

    Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

  • Then a commercial entry, perhaps a local coal company driving an enormous pair of black Percherons.

    Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006

  • On his land there stood a hangarlike barn that once had housed teams of great blue Percherons and Belgian draft horses.

    Excerpt: The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich 2001

  • These horses are Percherons, a draft breed, massive and docile.

    BAD GIRL CREEK Jo-Ann Mapson 2001

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