The word 'caparison' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to ornamental coverings for a horse or other animal, such as a decorative saddlecloth or bridle. Example: The medieval knight rode into the tournament grounds on his magnificent steed, adorned with a colorful caparison embroidered with his family crest.
In Kollum, a group calling itself the Pooram-Perunaal Celebration Committee was denied a permit to march 52 elephants in protest; the members dressed a bulldozer in a gold-plated caparison and marched with that instead.
Decorative pieces produced by Delft artists will also be on view, including cabinet bronzes, gilded silver, Delftware faience and tapestries such as a full set of weavings that make up a vivid, well-preserved horse caparison, on loan from the Royal Armory in Stockholm.
There were gaily caparisoned horses, soldiers on horseback, their armor glinting in the sun, and men with longbows.
The fabric became alive with a "miniature but microscopically detailed battle scene," complete with silken tents of different colors, "gaily caparisoned horses, soldiers on horseback, their armor glinting in the sun, and men with longbows".
Nearly every festival in the state includes at least one elephant draped in gold-plated caparisons.
The houses are as handsomely caparisoned as knights dressed for a tournament.
So far so generic, and there's enough "dosts" and "thees" and "caparisoned for wars" to try my patience, as Moorcock goes for a heroic tone.
Ninety minutes long, subtitled with Russian dialogue, set in The Hermitage, in St . Petersburg caparisoned in tailcoats and ball gowns, and directed by Alexander Sokurov, maker of the ineffable "Mother and Son": it sounded like something that could be handled only after a regime of round-the-clock Tolstoy and Nordic trekking.
Of his adventures inside the golden palace he told us little but of his issuance therefrom at one o'clock in the morning, he told us that one of the ushers of the night watch, full armed and gaily caparisoned, sprang at him from behind a pillar of chrysoprase and porphyry and thrust a newspaper into his hand.
It needn't be caparisoned with foam or gold leaf, nor lauded by Michelin.
The French literally — vertically — descended on the English at Agincourt, like beautifully caparisoned prongs from above.
