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White Horses
Foam-crested waves.
“The resemblance ... has commonly been drawn between the
horse [and the waves], in regard to his mane, and the foam-tipped
waves, which are still called white horses.”
—W. E. Gladstone: Nineteenth Century,
November, 1885.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on White Horses from Infoplease:
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