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à cheval
[ a shuh-val; English ah shuh-val ]
French.
- by horse; on horseback.
à cheval
/ a ʃəval /
adverb
- (of a bet, esp in roulette) made on two adjacent numbers, cards, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of à cheval1
literally: on horseback
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Example Sentences
I had not asked his name, but his regiment I knew to be the 22d Chasseurs à Cheval.
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Again there was another means of travel which originated in Paris; it was known as the “Messageries à Cheval.”
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Il venoit à nous au grand trot, et il étoit accompagné de trois hommes à cheval qui nous parurent bien armés.
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The latter she distributed à cheval, with one en plein on the number eighteen.
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Detachments of the 12th Dragoons and the 22d Chasseurs-à-Cheval.
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