Synonyms for jennet
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : jen-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn ɪt |
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Définition of jennet
Origin :- "small Spanish horse," mid-15c., from French genet, from Spanish jinete "a light horseman," perhaps from Arabic Zenata, name of a Barbary tribe [Klein]. Sense transferred in English and French from the rider to the horse.
- As in donkey : noun small domestic horselike mammal
- Clare summoned Jennet, and took her own seat in the further window.
- Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
- Be there any manner of irons, Jennet, for crisping or curling the hair?
- Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
- Pouchskin, riding his great French jennet, had started in the advance.
- Extract from : « Bruin » by Mayne Reid
- I had not an English horse there, so I bought that Andalusian jennet.
- Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Get you upon your jennet, dame; and, Robin, do you show the way.
- Extract from : « Robin Hood » by Paul Creswick
- Jennet Clouston and mony mair that he has harried out of house and hame.
- Extract from : « Kidnapped » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Before them rode a boy on a jennet, and by him a clerk, as he seemed, upon a mule.
- Extract from : « Hereward, The Last of the English » by Charles Kingsley
- I offered her my chestnut courser, but she preferred a jennet.
- Extract from : « The Prince of India, Volume II » by Lew. Wallace
- Jennet Cock had an ill name, past all forbearance or overlooking.
- Extract from : « Witch Stories » by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
- Our English word “jennet” may be derived from the same source.
- Extract from : « The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] » by George Borrow
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