bichon

[< CdnF; perhaps related to biche red deer (see 1809 quote)]

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a horse having a fawn or light-bay coat; a buckskin, pony or mustang.

Quotations

1809

[[We] lost abt 40' [minutes] in changing the Load of the Poile de Biche. . . .]

1859

We also picked out a small light-coloured "bichon" . . . a fat, comfortable, lazy little beast. . . .

1880

Came into my band of horses last September, a small Bichon or Buckskin Horse. . . .

1954

He went along the roads on his light bay broncho (bichon, as they say in Canada). . . .