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04-13-2015, 11:54 AM
\ kuh-PAR-uh-suhn \ , verb;
1.
To dress richly; deck.

2.
To cover with a caparison.

noun: 1.
A decorative covering for a horse or for the tack or harness of a horse; trappings.

2.
Rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment.



Quotes:
The fruit, the fountain that's in all of us; in Edward; in Eleanor; so why caparison ourselves on top?
-- Virginia Woolf, The Years

And he followed her order, bridling and saddling the horse and making every effort to caparison it well.
-- Chrétien de Troyes, The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes



Origin:
Caparison originally referred to an elaborate covering for horses. It is related to the word chaperon