Word: pluvinel
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...military news of some magnitude when he imported a string of steel-white Spanish steeds to his estate at Lipizza. In 1735 the Spanish Riding School was established in Vienna to train the finest Lipizzan stallions in the classic battle tactics devised by a French riding master named Antoine Pluvinel. Bonapartes and Habsburgs came and went. The horse itself became obsolete as a weapon of war. But in its great white temple, the great white breed, serving like a race of priests the cult of equitation, continued serenely in its rituals and would so continue, the Viennese assumed, until...
...Walter is 72. He has worn a mauve carnation in his buttonhole every day for 35 years. He owns and wears Britain's finest collection of fancy waistcoats (all with buttons engraved with his initials), a collection rivaled only by the de la Baume-Pluvinel collection in Paris. One day lately Sir Walter with a fresh carnation and a new waistcoat from Savile Row took his usual constitutional along Rotten...
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