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noun
- A large warhorse, especially of a medieval knight.
- 1819, 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 '." " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- 1855''', Dark and the Desert and Destriers me ken, And the Glaive and the Joust, and Paper and Pen. - w:Al-Mutanabbi, Al-Mutanabbi tr. by Richard Burton
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman destrer, Old French Old French, destrier, from a Proto-Romance derivative of Latin dextera, literally "(animal) led by the right hand", from dexter "right".
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