Meanings
percheron1
Percheron2
plural Percherons
- A breed of draught horse of a large, strong, usually dapple-grey type.
His name was Wolfe and he had about twenty-eight young Percheron stallions and mares[.]
1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 491 more example
A team of black Percherons, stomping and nodding against the traces and blowing blossomy plumes from their frost-ringed nostrils, stood at the front of the car, hitched to its bumper with logging chains […].
1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 95
Origin
- FrenchPercheron
- EnglishPercheron
From French Percheron, from Perche, the name of a region of northern France where the horses are bred.
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