Both Uses of
forage
in
Anna Karenina
- Going towards the stable, he met the white-legged chestnut, Mahotin's Gladiator, being led to the race-course in a blue forage horsecloth, with what looked like huge ears edged with blue.†
Part 2 *forage = search for and gather -- often food and provisions
- Then two officers emerged, bowing too, and a stout man with a big beard, wearing a greasy forage cap.†
Part 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(forage) to search for and gather -- often food and provisions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely: Forage can imply taking other's food or supplies as when soldiers forage on nearby farms. As a noun, it can reference the items found. Finally, at times (especially in classic literature) it is used in reference plant material eaten by animals.