graymare, greymare

A cant term for a wife; from the proverb "The gray - mare is the better horse," that is the wife is master. "The vulgar proverb, that the grey -mare is the better horse, originated, I suspect, in the preference generally given to the grey -mares of Fl Flanders over the finest coach horses of England."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. iii. IMG:content-0723.png:[blocks in formation] grazing