caparison
Sign in to savethumb|246x246px|The Dukes of Brittany (left) and Bourbon on caparisoned horses at a tournament fight (1460s), from Le Livre des tournois by [[Barthélemy d'Eyck]] A caparison is a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration. In modern times, they are used mainly in parades and for historical reenactments. A similar term is horse-trapper. The word is derived from the Latin , meaning a cape.
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thumb|246x246px|The Dukes of Brittany (left) and Bourbon on caparisoned horses at a tournament fight (1460s), from Le Livre des tournois by [[Barthélemy d'Eyck]] A caparison is a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration. In modern times, they are used mainly in parades and for historical reenactments. A similar term is horse-trapper. The word is derived from the Latin , meaning a cape.
==History== thumb|left|Picador on a caparisoned horse at a [[bullfight|220x220px]]In antiquity, a "magnificently caparisoned horse" takes a central place in a vision reported in the deutero-canonical text, , which prevents the Seleucid emissary Heliodorus from a planned assault on the Jewish temple treasury in Jerusalem.