A caparison is a covering, or cloth laid over a horse or other animal, especially a pack animal, or horse of state. Anciently, caparisons were a kind of iron armor, with which horses were covered in battle. Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... A pack animal is a beast of burden used by humans as means of transporting materials by attaching them so their weigh bears on the animals back; the term may be applied to either an individual animal or a species so employed. ...

The word is Spanish, being an augmentative of cape, caput, "head".

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