English
encolure
Encolure comes from French encolure ‘neck (of a horse)’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentencolure‘neck (of a horse)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1855same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentencolure‘neck (of a horse)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1855same form
Earliest quotation: 1855, Robert Browning: “Crisped like a war-steed's encolure”.
Every English word from French encolure
Today it means
noun The neck of a horse.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French encolure / encolure