warhorse (4 synonym found)

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Definition of warhorse:

°Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armored knight.
"As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his warhorse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm. -- Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, ."
°(music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.
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Definition of warhorse:

°Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armored knight.
"As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his warhorse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm. -- Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, ."
°(music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.
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