Synonyms of the word caparison


CAPARISONADORN - BARD - BEAUTIFY - DECORATE - EMBELLISH - GRACE - HOUSING - ORNAMENT - SADDLERY - TACK - TRAPPING

caparison

  • n. The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.
  • n. Gay or rich clothing.
  • v. To dress up a horse or elephant with ornamental coverings.

adorn

  • v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • n. (obsolete) adornment.

bard

  • n. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing…
  • n. (by extension) A poet.
  • n. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb…
  • n. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  • n. (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  • n. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  • n. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
  • v. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
  • v. (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

beautify

  • v. (transitive) To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

decorate

  • v. (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
  • v. (transitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
  • v. (computing, transitive) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further…

embellish

  • v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

grace

  • n. (not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
  • n. (not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
  • n. (not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given…
  • n. (not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
  • n. (countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
  • n. (finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal…
  • n. (card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
  • v. (transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
  • v. (transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
  • v. (transitive, music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

housing

  • v. present participle of house.
  • n. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
  • n. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
  • n. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
  • n. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse…
  • n. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
  • n. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the…
  • n. A niche for a statue.
  • n. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
  • n. (nautical) A houseline.

ornament

  • n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
  • n. A Christmas tree decoration.
  • n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
  • v. To decorate.
  • v. To add to.

saddlery

  • n. (uncountable) The trade or craft of a saddler.
  • n. A place of business of a saddler.
  • n. The inventory and equipment of a saddler.

tack

  • n. A small nail with a flat head.
  • n. A thumbtack.
  • n. (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
  • n. (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
  • n. (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
  • n. A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
  • n. (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes…
  • n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
  • n. (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled;…
  • n. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated…
  • n. (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive…
  • n. Hardtack.
  • n. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
  • n. (law, Scotland) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
  • n. (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
  • v. To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
  • v. To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
  • v. (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes…
  • v. To add something as an extra item.
  • v. Often paired with "up", to place the tack on a horse.
  • n. A stain; a tache.
  • n. (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
  • n. (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.

trapping

  • v. present participle of trap.
  • n. An instance of ensnaring something or someone.
  • n. An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; caparison.

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