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References A ace Slang for the drug acepromazine or acetyl promazine (trade names Atravet or Acezine), which is a sedative : 3 commonly used on horses during veterinary treatment, but also illegal in the show ring. Also abbreviated ACP. action The way a horse elevates its legs, knees, hock, and feet. : 3 Also includes how the horse uses its shoulder, humerus, elbow, and stifle; most often used ...
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
There are many other horses in French folklore with extendable rumps and backs, or a link to water, as elficologist Pierre Dubois mentions in his Encyclopédie des fées, citing the Mallet horse, Bayard (one of the few not mentioned as evil), the Guernsey horse, or the Albret horse, alongside the blanque mare. Most of these "fairy horses" end ...
The word mare, meaning "female horse", took several forms before A.D. 900. [7] In Old English the form was mīere, mere or mȳre, the feminine forms for mearh (horse). The Old German form of the word was Mähre. [8] Similarly, in Irish and Gaelic, the word was marc, in Welsh, march, in Cornish "margh", and in Breton marc'h. [8]
The mare is etymologically close to the word nightmare in many languages: "mähre" means mare in German, [100] and also refers to a fabulous chtonian mare. The word is spelled nightmare in English, which also means "mare of the night", while in French quauquemaire means "witch". In Old Irish, mahrah means "death" and "epidemic".
Mare's Leg, or Mare's Laig, a pistol first used in the fictional television series Wanted: Dead or Alive; Mare (TV series), Japanese television drama; Museum of Recent Art (Romania), MARe - acronym for a contemporary art museum in Romania; Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet), fictional main character in HBO crime drama Mare of Easttown
This terminological distinction does not exist in French. In French, ' hennissement' is a masculine noun [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] that, according to the Trésor de la langue Française informatisé , was attested in the 13th century and it is in the Histoire de l'empereur Henri de Constantinopled by Henry of Valenciennes (a text dated around 1220 [ 5 ] ).
Since English is of Germanic origin, words that have entered English from French borrowings of Germanic words might not look especially French. Latin accounts for about 60% of English vocabulary either directly or via a Romance language. As both English and French have taken many words from Latin, determining whether a given Latin word came ...