DCHP-1 Online

bichon [< CdnF; perhaps related to biche red deer (see 1809 quote)] West

• n. a horse having a fawn or light-bay coat; a buckskin, pony or mustang.

  See also: buckskin  

  • 1809  (1950)  [[We] lost abt 40' [minutes] in changing the Load of the Poile de Biche. . . .]
  • 1859  (1875)  We also picked out a small light-coloured "bichon" . . . a fat, comfortable, lazy little beast. . . .
  • 1880  Came into my band of horses last September, a small Bichon or Buckskin Horse. . . .
  • 1954  He went along the roads on his light bay broncho (bichon, as they say in Canada). . . .