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jennet
[ jen-it ]
noun
- a female donkey; a jenny donkey.
- Also called Spanish jennet,. a small Spanish horse of the Middle Ages, prized as an ideal riding horse for nobility and light cavalry: now considered an extinct type, it was the progenitor of various modern breeds, most notably the Spanish jennet horse .
jennet
/ ˈ»åÏôÉ›²Ôɪ³Ù /
noun
- Also calledjenny a female donkey or ass
- a small Spanish riding horse
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of jennet1
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Middle French genet, from Catalan, variant of ginet “horse of the Zenete kind,†from Spanish Arabic ³ú¾±²Ôŧ³ÙÄ«, dialectal variant of ³ú²¹²ÔÄå³ÙÄ« “pertaining to the Zenete tribe (of Berbers),†after ´Ü²¹²ÔÄå³Ù²¹³ó “the Zenetesâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of jennet1
C15: from Old French genet, from Catalan ginet, horse of the type used by the Zenete, from Arabic ´Ü²¹²ÔÄå³Ù²¹³ó the Zenete, a Moorish people renowned for their horsemanship
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Bayard stepped up his pace, the jennet pranced and arched her neck, and Robin wanted to get down and swing along with the others.
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Edward III. was likewise an admirer of the horse; he procured fifty Spanish horses, probably jennets.
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I tell thee he who passed was a goodly Knight, clad in a green vesture, and riding on a great black jennet.
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"I have at hand a pair of English jennets which will carry us thirty leagues without drawing rein."
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He had gone with a flock of English sheep to northern Spain, and come back in the same ship with the Spanish jennets which the captain took in exchange.
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