[a. F. bidet pony; of unknown origin: cf. OF. bider (Godefroy) to trot. In 16th c. the F. word meant also some small kind of dagger. (The Celtic comparisons made by Diez and Littré are rejected by Thurneysen.)]
1. A small horse.
1630. B. Jonson, Chlorid., Wks. (1838), 656. I will return to myself, mount my bidet, in a dance, and curvet upon my curtal.
1828. Disraeli, Chas. I., I. ii. 18. Then there are thanks for two bidets which Henry sends him.
1863. Sala, Capt. Dangerous, II. vi. 202. I trotted behind on a little Bidet.
2. ‘A vessel on a low, narrow stand, which can be bestridden’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.) for bathing purposes.
