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(historical) The warhorse of Alexander the Great.
plural Bucephaluses
(humorous) Any horse used for riding. quotations examples
the Bucephalus which he bestrode
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
(figurative, obsolete) That which is the greatest of its kind. quotations
It will suffice to say that when I started on my journey into the realms of lexicography, I regarded Kʻang Hsi as a Bucephalus on whose tail — 蠅附龭尾 — a foreign fly might safely get an advantageous lift.
1892, Herbert A. Giles, A Chinese–English Dictionary, 1st edition