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# palfrey

«palfrey» in Mova's school dictionary: **A gentle horse ridden by a lady or a knight, not a war horse** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural palfreys)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use, in fairy tales) A gentle horse ridden by a lady or a knight, not a war horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palfrey/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a knight rides a palfrey to the castle or the forest

### examples

- He changed the old mare into a brisk piebald palfrey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palfrey/#x1)
- She was perched on a magnificent palfrey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palfrey/#x2)
- I had my palfrey saddled and rode to the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palfrey/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «palfrey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palfrey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.