Crossword-Solution: ENCOLURE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Gay he rode, with a friend as gay, Till he threw his head back--"Who is she?" "A bride the Riccardi brings home to-day." Hair in heaps lay heavily Over a pale brow spirit-pure-- 20 Carved like the heart of a coal-black tree, Crisped like a war-steed's encolure-- And vainly sought to dissemble her eyes Of the blackest black our eyes endure.

Gay he rode, with a friend as gay, Till he threw his head back--"Who is she?" --"A bride the Riccardi brings home to-day." Hair in heaps lay heavily Over a pale brow spirit-pure-- Carved like the heart of the coal-black tree, Crisped like a war-steed's encolure-- And vainly sought to dissemble her eyes Of the blackest black our eyes endure, And lo, a blade for a knight's emprise Filled the fine empty sheath of a man,-- The Duke grew straightway brave and wise.

Her hair, which she was accustomed to wear in two tightly braided pigtails down her back, had been released and brushed out all its stately maiden length, "crisped like a war steed's encolure." It fell below her waist, and made her face and throat look pale against its blackness.

Here are his fine points:-- Four { The forehead "Wide" { The portrail (chest) Points { Loins { Membres (shoulders) Four { Encolure (neck) "Long" { Rayons supérieurs (upper fore and hind leg) Points { Body { Hind quarter Four "Short" Points {Reins (flank) {Paturons (pasterns) {Ears {Tail Coat brilliant and dark coloured This is the formulæ upon which the French remount officers choose their Arabian horses, and for hard work they take always a "_traineur avec sa queue_," a horse of seven years or more.