It is worth noticing that the housings of cut cloth or appliqué work ("draps entaillez") are still in fashion in India for the caparison of elephants.
NOTE 3] And these are followed by a vast number of camels which are likewise covered with rich housings and laden with things needful for the Feast.
Manag'd Horses, with Housings of yellow Velvet, embroider'd with Silver, led by Grooms in the Saxon Livery on Horseback.
Horses cover'd with great Housingsof yellow Cloth, adorn'd with 2 Silver Lace Edgings, and the embroider'd Arms of the 24 Cities or Provinces of Saxony and Poland.
Post Masters of Saxony clad in white with yellow Lace, the whole edg'd with Silver, as were also the Housings of their Horses, which were all over black.
Postilions dress'd in yellow with blue Lace, they had Caps like Dragoons, and the Housingsof their Horses were embroider'd with the King's Arms.
The Grand Vèzer rode first on a magnificent white Arabian, whosehousings were wrought with gold and seed-pearl.
With these individuals commenced the interest and Orientalism of the spectacle; the flashing diamonds upon their breasts and hands, and the glittering housings of their horses, relieving the monotonous slowness with which they progressed.
The figures were so quaint, the design so original, and the whole so rich in quality, that no prince could hope to ride with more tasteful and imposing housings for his steed.
He rode a handsome charger, whose trappings and housings were richly embroidered and resplendent with many strange devices.
All of the fifty sat upon coal-black horses, with saddles of silver andhousings of silk and velvet embroidered with gold.
Bos'un, cast off the housings and clear the guns for action.
The housings fell apart at invisible lines of juncture, revealing mechanisms of baffling simplicity, and some things that didn't look like machines at all.
He led the way into the center of the ship where the seamless housings stood, the housings that had baffled some of the better minds of Earth.
The third was a chariot of ebony drawn by two prancing coal-black horses whose leathers and housings shone and jingled.
But Har-hat presented jeweled housings to Apis for the prospering of his search after Rachel, and set about assisting the god with all his might.
A double file of camels with sumptuous housings moved with dignified and unhasty tread after the litters.
His coat-of-arms, that of the house of Friedwald, was richly emblazoned upon the housings of his courser.
Scarcely had they done so when, closely following the dogs, appeared the first of the hunters, mounted on a splendid charger, withhousings of rose-velvet.
In the present instance the man showed a disposition to scrutinize too closely the modest attire of the new-comers and the plain housings of their chargers, when the curt voice of the jester recalled him sharply from this forward occupation.
The harness and housings were all equally splendid and suitable.
The rich flowing housings or drapery of the steeds, covering the armour, if any, as the "surcoat" of the knight did his.
Gray says the King went much against his will (as Barbour reports one version in line 298), and that he knocked over with his mace the Scots that were catching at his charger's housings (Scala.
At their head rode Bourbon and Pescara, both distinguishable, even at that distance, from the splendour of their accoutrements and the rich housings of their steeds.
Even the human vulture, which follows on the track of warring armies to feed upon the spoils of the dead, had gorged itself upon that field, and left the rich arms and housings to be carried away on the morning following.
The housingsof fifty of his horses were of rich cloth embroidered with gold, and others were of brocade.
Saddlers and harness-makers and horse-milliners also were there, whose tents glittered with gorgeous housings and caparisons.
The housings of the mule were of fine crimson cloth, the borders embroidered with gold, the reins and head-piece were of satin, curiously embossed with needlework of silk and wrought with golden letters.
The sumpter mules had housings of the same, with halters of silk, while the bridles, head-pieces, and all the harnessing glittered with silver.
The housings were of mulberry powdered with stars of gold.
The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
He had a blue surcoat and blue housings for his horse.
His shield was of the same blazon, so also the housings of his horse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
