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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

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