encolure
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French encolure.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editencolure (plural encolures)
- The neck of a horse.
- 1855, Robert Browning, The Statue and the Bust:
- Crisped like a war-steed's encolure
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “encolure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editNoun
editencolure f (plural encolures)
- neck (of a horse)
Further reading
edit- “encolure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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