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crinière

crinière is the alternative form of criniere.

Meaning of criniere

Noun

criniere (plural crinieres)

  1. Protective armor for a horse's neck.
    • The Criniere or Manefaire consisted of a number of small plates, generally about twelve, hooked together and to the chanfron, so as to be moveable, their use was to guard the neck of the horse from the stroke of a cutting sword.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 30
    Synonyms:
    crinet

Forms of crinière

pluralcrinières

Questions about crinière

What is crinière the alternative form of?
Crinière is the alternative form of criniere.

Words near crinière in the dictionary

  1. crinites
  2. crinitol
  3. crinitory
  4. crinivirus
  5. criniviruses
  6. crinière
  7. CRINK
  8. crinkle
  9. crinkle critter
  10. crinkle critters
  11. crinkle-crankle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crinière (page history and authors); criniere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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