A strong medieval warhorse; a powerful horse suitable for carrying armored knights (variant or archaic form of 'destrier').
From Old French 'destour' or variant of 'destrier,' possibly related to 'destre' (right side, the right-hand side of a horse), though the etymology of this horse term is uncertain and disputed among scholars.
Medieval horse terminology is murky—'destrier,' 'courser,' 'palfrey' all meant different things, but the distinctions have been lost to time; 'destour' may be a spelling variant showing how medieval words had fluid spellings before standardization.
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