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mare

noun · /MAIR, rhymes with “care”/

A mare is a grown-up female horse. If the horse is young, she is usually called a filly instead.

In a sentence

  • "The gentle mare trotted across the sunny meadow with her foal beside her."
  • "Lena brushed the mare’s shiny brown coat before the riding lesson."

Books where you'll see it

  • Black Beauty
    Anna Sewell
  • Misty of Chincoteague
    Marguerite Henry
  • The Horse and His Boy
    C. S. Lewis
  • My Friend Flicka
    Mary O'Hara
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