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The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor, etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust.
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- They had already got out for her a palfrey with an easy pace. - "Four Arthurian Romances "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot"", Chretien DeTroyes.
- Then he changed the old mare into a brisk, piebald palfrey. - "Irish Fairy Tales", James Stephens.
- She came mounted upon a palfrey, white as snow, which carried her softly, as though she loved her burthen. - "French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France", Marie de France.