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# palfrey

noun (plural palfreys)

«palfrey» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «palfrey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palfrey/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«palfrey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/palfrey.html) on Mova free.