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French
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masque-cheval m (plural masques-cheval or masques-chevaux)
- hobby horse, a horse costume used in festivals, dance, and play
1954, Jean Baumel, Le «Masque-Cheval» et quelques autres animaux fantastiques: Étude de folklore, d'ethnographie et d'histoire [The "Hobby Horse" and Some Other Fantastic Animals: A Study of Folklore, Ethnography, and History], Institut d'études occitanes: 1991, Gaël Milin, Le roi Marc aux oreille de cheval [King Mark of the Horse's Ears], Librairie Droz, page 137 fn.:J.G. Frazer rapporte d’après un témoin oculaire que le masque-cheval était associé à ces feux dans l’Irelande du XIXᵉ; […] « […] tandis que faisait son apparition une grande construction de bois d’environ huit pieds de long, munie à une de ses extrémités d’une tête de cheval et recouverte d’un grand drap blanc, qui cachait l’homme qui la portait. […] »- J. G. Frazer reports from an eyewitness that the hobby horse was associated with these fires in 19C Ireland; " while a great construction of wood appeared, about eight feet long, provided at one end with a horse's head and covered with a large white sheet which hid the man who carried it. "
1984, Jean-Michel Guilcher, “La danse et la fête”, in La tradition de danse en Béarn et Pays Basque français [The tradition of Dance in Béarn and French Basque Country], Béarn: Les Editions de la MSH, page 468:La question de la présence éventuelle d’un masque-cheval n’aurait pas à être abordée dans ce chapitre si je m’en tenais aux informations recueillies par nous sur le terrain. […] En 1937 (Pyrenean Festivals, p. 154) évocation plus détaillée, cette fois dans le cadre d’une description des cavalcades: « Here, sometimes, is the hobby-horse also, tending towards the Kentish hooden horse type, the man’s head and body completely draped. […] »- The question of the possible presence of a hobby horse would not need to be addressed in this chapter if I had held to the information gathered by us on the ground. In 1937 (Pyrenean Festivals, p. 154) is a more detailed evocation, this time in the context of a description of the cavalcades: "Here, sometimes, is the hobby-horse also, tending towards the Kentish hooden horse type, the man's head and body completely draped. "
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