cavallardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Spanish caballada

名詞

cavallard (複数形 cavallards)

1. (US, obsolete) A group of horses or mules.
   • 1876, Amelia E. Barr, Romances and Realities: Tales of Truth and Fancy, page 35:

     Far as the eye could reach the land was all his own; immense herds of cattle and cavallards of horses roamed over the hills; and the rich bottom-lands yielded him fabulous harvests of corn and cotton.

   • 1877, Henry Smythe, Historical Sketch of Parker County and Weatherford, Texas, page 336:

     The stallion guards his cavallard with a jealous eye, and allows no interference from other horses, and often he battles so ferociously with any and all intruders, that when the owner or herdsman approaches, he is compelled to used stones and other missiles before the stallion allows him to enter the range over which he holds supreme jurisdiction.