In grave silence they came to the adobe fort, bowed ceremoniously from their caparisoned horses and said, "The Oglala will come."
The funeral procession consisted of the president's casket mounted on and using a caissons, foot soldiers, clergy, and a caparisoned, riderless horse.
The equipment mounted on the caparisoned, riderless horse varies according to color of the horse.
Now and again a better-dressed person would come riding through on a caparisoned horse, driving everyone else out of the way.
She saw the prisoners all at once, three cloaked women and a small child riding on caparisoned horses.
In "Mars and His Children," for instance, the god of war, dressed in armor, rides a caparisoned horse through the sky above a chaotic earthly scene.
The caparisoned horse later came to symbolize a warrior who would ride no more.
In 1865, Abraham Lincoln was honored by the inclusion of a caparisoned horse at his funeral.
An important ceremonial use is in military funerals, which often have a caparisoned horse as part of the procession, "to symbolize that the warrior will never ride again".
A richly caparisoned horse was brought, rearing and prancing, and willing hands helped Amalric into the saddle.