percheron

Etymology

From French Percheron, from Perche, the name of a region of northern France where the horses are bred.

noun

  1. A breed of draught horse of a large, strong, usually dapple-grey type.“A team of black Percherons, stomping and nodding against the traces and blowing blossomy plumes from their frost-ringed nostrils, stood at the front of the car, hitched to its bumper with logging chains […].”