Glossary

Glossary

Obby Oss

The hobby horse. Associated with traditions in Padstow, Cornwall. The 'Old 'Oss' and the Blue Ribbon 'Oss' each have an enormous frame draped with heavy, black tarpaulin with a symbolic horse's head and a real horse hair tail on the rim.
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