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claybank en · NOUN

Etymology

From clay + bank. First attested in 1755.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A bank of clay.
2. (US, countable, uncountable) A dun-coloured horse.
   • Reverdy made one action of throwing his leg over the claybank’s back to the ground, and slipping the bridle over the smooth peg left from the limb of the young tree-trunk which formed one of the posts of the porch. 1916, William Dean Howells, chapter I, in The Leatherwood God:
3. (US, broadly, uncountable) A dun-coloured horse. ▸ Dun; a brownish yellow.
   • I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl. 1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 82:

Forms

Translations (3)

pl bułanek (dun-coloured horse) · pl bułany (dun-coloured horse) · de Falbe (dun-coloured horse)