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Definitions: Caparison |
CaparisonNoun1. Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse. Verb1. Put a caparison on; of horses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caparison" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: CaparisonSynonyms: housing (n), housings (n), trapping (n), trappings (n), bard (v), dress up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison. |
Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caparison |
| English words defined with "caparison": bard ♦ Caparisoning ♦ dress up ♦ Footcloth. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caparison guitar | 17 |
caparison | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caparison"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غطاء مزركش. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | красиво конско покривало, богато облекло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | caparaçon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schabracke (hag, nag, pelmet, saddlecloth, valance), mit einer schabracke bedecken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στολίζω (adorn, array, attire, beautify, bespangle, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, garnish, ornament, perk, prank, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim), φαλάκρα ίππου, επιστρώνω (coat, to coat, to cover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sallangos lószerszám, cifra öltözet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | abah-abah (harness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bardatura (accouterment, accoutrement, harness, harness trappings, trappings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eilley yesheenagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aparisoncay equipar (accoutre, clothe, equipage, furnish, gear, man, outfitter, prepared, rig, set out, store, tool up), equipamento de cavalo, enfeite (anklet, broidery, decking, dressing, embellishment, fallals, finery, garnish, garniture, Gill, lapel, offset, ornament, ornate, pretty, trimming), enfeitar (apparel, bejewel, deck, embellishment, frill, garnish, groom, ornament, perk, prank, prettily, primp, set out, sugar coat, titivate, tog oneself up). (various references) cioltar (blanket, shabrack), podoabã (adornment, garnish, livery, ornament, rep, set off, setting off), pãturã pentru cai, gãti (attire, cook, doll, dress, end, fig out, prank, preen, prepare, rig, Spruce, trim), gãtealã (array, finery, livery, toilet, trappings), acoperi cu un cioltar, împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references) покрывать попоной, попона (body-cloth, horsecloth, horse-cloth, horse-cover, housing). (various references) nakititi konja, nakićena konjska oprema. (various references) vestirse en (attire, Don, gown, tog), vestido (clothes, covering, dress, dressed, dressing, ensemble, frock, garb, garment, gown, lounge suit, raiment, rig out, robe, toilet, toilette). (various references) utstyrsel (accoutrement, accoutrements, format, get up, get-up, outfit, trappings, turnout), styra ut (attire, fig out), schabrak (housing), hästmundering, förse med schabrak. (various references) เครื่องแต่งกายสำหรับม้าสงครามในสมัยก่อน. (various references) süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), kıyafet (apparel, attire, costume, dress, garb, get up, habiliments, habit, livery, togs, turnout, vesture), haşe örtmek, haşe, giysi (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, guise, raiment, robe, tire, tog, toggery, vesture, wear), eyer örtüsü (saddle blanket), örtü (blanket, canopy, cloak, cloth, coat, cope, cover, covering, envelope, garment, hood, layout, mantle, nappe, overlay, secundine, shroud, spread, throw, veil, wrap, wrapper). (various references) сідлати (saddle), убрання (apparel, array, attire, cloth, clothes, costume, decoration, dress, feather, raiment, trim, turn out, vesture), чепрак (saddlecloth), вкривати попоною, вбирати, одяг (apparel, clobber, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garments, investment, outfit, rag, raiment, rig out, tailoring, things, togs, vestment, wear), наряджати (array, attire, doll, prank, prink, rig out, smug), прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish), попона (blanket, body-cloth, horse-cloth, saddlecloth, trapper). (various references) tấm phủ lưng ngựa đ" trang sức. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caparison": caparisoned, caparisoning, caparisons. (additional references) | |
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"Caparison" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caporaso, Caporoso, Capparis, caprison, coparison, Kaprayoon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: paranoics. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ocarinas, paranoic, parsonic. | |
-2 letters: acrasin, anopias, anopsia, arnicas, carinas, ocarina, paisano, parians, picaras, picaros, piranas, prosaic, soprani. | |
-3 letters: acinar, acorns, anopia, aprons, arnica, arsino, cairns, capias, capons, capris, carina, casino, copras, crania, nairas, narcos, norias, orcins, orpins, paisan, panics, parian, parson, pianos, picara, picaro, pirana, prions, prison, racons, scoria, spinor, sprain. | |
-4 letters: acari, acorn, airns, anoas, apian, apron, arias, arson, aspic, cains, cairn, canso, capon, capos, carns, carpi, carps, cions, coins, coirs, copra, coria, corns, corps, craps, crisp, crops, icons, irons, naira, narco, narcs, naric, naris, nipas, noirs, noria, noris, opsin, orcas, orcin, ornis, orpin, pacas, pains, pairs, paisa, panic, paras, paris, piano, pians, picas, pinas, pions, pirns, pisco, porns, praos, prion, proas, psoai, racon, raias, rains, ranis, roans, rosin, sacra, sapor, saran, sarin, scarp, scion, scorn, scrap, scrip, sonar, sonic, spica. | |
-5 letters: ains, airn, airs, anas, anis, anoa, ansa, arco, arcs, aria, asci, cain, cans, capo, caps, carn, carp, cars, casa, ciao, cion, coin, coir, coni, cons, cops, corn, cors, crap, cris, crop, icon, inro, ions, iron, naoi, naos, naps, narc, nipa, nips, noir, nori, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, osar, paca, pacs, pain, pair, pans, para, pars, pian, pias, pica, pics, pina, pins, pion, pirn, piso, pois, pons, porn, prao, proa, pros, raia, rain, rani, raps, rasp, rias, rins, rips, roan, rocs, sain, sari, scan, scar, scop, snap, snip, soap, soar, sora, sori, sorn, span, spar, spic, spin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: caparisons, paranoiacs. | |
+2 letters: caparisoned, ceratopsian, postcranial, pyromaniacs, rapscallion. | |
+3 letters: anticipators, caparisoning, ceratopsians, emancipators, nonparasitic, pantisocracy, paronomastic, rapscallions. | |
+4 letters: anaphrodisiac, appreciations, coparcenaries, coplanarities, endoparasitic, haruspication, pantisocratic, paramountcies, plantocracies, postcranially, procarbazines, proclamations, procrastinate, quadraphonics, rapaciousness. | |
+5 letters: achondroplasia, anaphrodisiacs, caprifications, cinematographs, conspirational, conspiratorial, cycloparaffins, haruspications, microsporangia, oceanographies, pantisocracies, pantisocratist, participations, phantasmagoric, prevarications, procrastinated, procrastinates, procrastinator, propagandistic, reapplications. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 61 72 69 73 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. .- .-. .. ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01100001 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p a r i s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0061 0072 0069 0073 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376782678475858180 |
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