Palfrey

Origin

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman palefrei ("steed"), from Old French palefroi, from Late Latin paraverēdus ("post horse, spare horse"), from Ancient Greek παρά, from πάριππος (parippos, "spare horse") + Latin verēdus ("post horse"), from Gaulish *werēdos ("horse") (compare Welsh gorwydd ("horse")), from Proto-Celtic *uforēdos ("horse").

Full definition of palfrey

Noun

1. (historical) A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women.
• 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, , lines 84-85 (for syntax)They choked my cries with force and fright,And tied me on a palfrey white.----