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stalking-horse
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stalking-horse has 4 senses
- stalking-horse(n = noun.person) Array - a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate; Array is a kind of campaigner, candidate, nominee
- stalking-horse(n = noun.communication) pretext - something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason; Array is a kind of dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense
- stalking-horse(n = noun.artifact) Array - screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game; Array is a kind of concealment, cover, covert, screen
- stalking-horse(n = noun.animal) Array - a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game; Array is a kind of equus caballus, horse
has particulars: putoff
CIDE DICTIONARY
stalking-horse, n.
- A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill. [1913 Webster]
- Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense. [1913 Webster]"Hypocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under an affectation of simplicity and religion." [1913 Webster]"How much more abominable is it to make of him [Christ] and religion a stalking-horse, to get and enjoy the world!" [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
stalking-horse
Pretext
N pretext, pretense, pretension, plea, allegation, advocation, ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason, excuse, subterfuge, color, gloss, guise, cover, loop hole, starting hole, how to creep out of, salvo, come off, way of escape, handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi, stalking-horse, cheval de bataille, cue, pretense, put off, dust thrown in the eyes, blind, moonshine, mere pretext, shallow pretext, lame excuse, lame apology, tub to a whale, false plea, sour grapes, makeshift, shift, white lie, special pleading, soft sawder, ostensibly, alleged, apologetic, pretended, ostensibly, under color, under the plea, under the pretense of, under the guise of.Precursor
N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.
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