Meanings
noundestrier (plural destriers)
plural destriers
- historicalA large warhorse, especially of a medieval knight.
Dark and the Desert and Destriers me ken, And the Glaive and the Joust, and Paper and Pen.
1855, Al-Mutanabbi, translated by Richard Francis Burton, (Please provide the book title or journal name)1 more example
I am resolved to share or avert the danger; which, that I may the better do, I would crave of thee the use of some palfrey whose pace may be softer than that of my destrier.
1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 236 - A steed.
Origin
- Anglo-Normandestrer
- Englishdestrier
From Anglo-Norman destrer, destrier.
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