Recently I was reading a book about England in Elizabethan times which included a 16th century painting of a Tudor palace with costumed dancers in the forground. One of the dancers was wearing a skirted horse costume & I can't remember what the others were wearing. I could try to get the book from the library again

There's probably a technical Morris term for the costume/dancer & I await information from a Morris dancing Mudcatter cos I know nuffin' about Morris dancing.

sandra