bpm | (noun) the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds | Synonyms: beats per minute, M.M., metronome marking |
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bps | (noun) (computer science) the rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem) | Synonyms: bits per second |
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brachiopod | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
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brachycephalic | (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
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brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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brainpan | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, cranium |
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brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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branchiopod | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
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branchiopodan | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
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brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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breakup | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: dissolution |
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(noun) coming apart | Synonyms: detachment, separation |
breastpin | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: broach, brooch |
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breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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brewpub | (noun) a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food | - |
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brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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bronchoscope | (noun) a slender tubular instrument used to examine the bronchial tubes | - |
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bronchospasm | (noun) a spasm of the bronchi that makes exhalation difficult and noisy; associated with asthma and bronchitis | - |
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brushup | (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: review |
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bryophyte | (noun) any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta | Synonyms: nonvascular plant |
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buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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(noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
(noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
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(noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
bump | (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: blow |
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(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
(noun) a lump on the body caused by a blow | - |
bumper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage | - |
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(noun) a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) | - |
bumph | (noun) reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring | Synonyms: bumf |
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bumpiness | (noun) the texture of a surface that has many bumps | - |
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bumpkin | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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bumptiousness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: cockiness, forwardness, pushiness |
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burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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(noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
burp | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burping, eructation |
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burping | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, eructation |
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businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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(noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
(noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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byplay | (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: business, stage business |
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byproduct | (noun) a product made during the manufacture of something else | Synonyms: by-product, spin-off |
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(noun) a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence | Synonyms: by-product |
cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
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cacophony | (noun) loud confusing disagreeable sounds | - |
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(noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din |
cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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caipiblack | (noun) a variation of the Caipirinha made with black vodka instead of cachaça. | - |
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caliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: calliper |
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caliph | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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caliphate | (noun) the office of a caliph | - |
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(noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph | - |
callathump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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(noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callithump, callithump parade |
calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
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calliope | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard | Synonyms: steam organ |
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calliopsis | (noun) North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis | Synonyms: Coreopsis tinctoria |
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calliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: caliper |
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callithump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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(noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callathump, callithump parade |
calpac | (noun) a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus | Synonyms: calpack, kalpac |
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calpack | (noun) a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus | Synonyms: calpac, kalpac |
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caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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(noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
(noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
calypso | (noun) rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf | Synonyms: Calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper |
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calypter | (noun) scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly | Synonyms: alula |
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calyptra | (noun) the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
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camelopard | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe |
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camelpox | (noun) a viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox | - |
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camp | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment |
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(noun) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers | - |
(noun) a penal institution (often for forced labor) | - |
(noun) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months | Synonyms: summer camp |
(noun) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs | Synonyms: refugee camp |
(noun) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality | - |
(noun) a group of people living together in a camp | - |
(noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
campaign | (noun) several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) | Synonyms: military campaign |
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(noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: hunting expedition, safari |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
(noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: political campaign, run |
campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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campana | (noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell, bell shape |
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campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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campanula | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bellflower |
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campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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(noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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camphor | (noun) a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment | - |
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camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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camping | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, encampment, tenting |
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campion | (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: catchfly, silene |
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campmate | (noun) someone who lives in the same camp you do | - |
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campong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: kampong |
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campsite | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, encampment |
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campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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campus | (noun) a field on which the buildings of a university are situated | - |
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canape | (noun) an appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food | - |
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candlepin | (noun) a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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candlepins | (noun) a bowling game using slender bowling pins | Synonyms: candlepin bowling |
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candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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canopy | (noun) a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather | - |
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(noun) the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air | - |
(noun) the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit | - |
cantaloup | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloupe |
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(noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup vine, cantaloupe, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
cantaloupe | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup |
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(noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
cap | (noun) a tight-fitting headdress | - |
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(noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: capital, chapiter |
(noun) a top (as for a bottle) | - |
(noun) something serving as a cover or protection | - |
(noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown |
(noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: detonating device, detonator |
(noun) an upper limit on what is allowed | Synonyms: ceiling, roof |
(noun) a protective covering that is part of a plant | Synonyms: hood |
(noun) a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom | Synonyms: pileus |
capability | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capableness |
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(noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capableness, potentiality |
(noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capacity |
capableness | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capability |
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(noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, potentiality |
capaciousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: commodiousness, roominess, spaciousness |
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(noun) intellectual breadth | Synonyms: roominess |
capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
capacitor | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser |
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capacity | (noun) the maximum production possible | - |
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(noun) a specified function | - |
(noun) capability to perform or produce | - |
(noun) tolerance for alcohol | - |
(noun) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior | Synonyms: mental ability |
(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacitance, electrical capacity |
(noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: content |
(noun) (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive | - |
(noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capability |
caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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