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percheron
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun percheron has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
percheron, n. [F.].
One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
percheron, n. a powerful breed of cart-horse.
Etymology
F, orig. bred in le Perche, a district of N. France
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