manège
Americannoun
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the art of training and riding horses.
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the action, movements, or paces of a trained horse.
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a school for training horses and teaching horsemanship.
noun
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the art of training horses and riders Compare dressage
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a riding school
Etymology
Origin of manège
1635–45; < French < Italian maneggio; manage
Example Sentences
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Roudier was judging at the letter “M,” on the long side of the manège.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
Next week, in Rio de Janeiro, seven judges around an arena, known as a manège, will evaluate the piaffes of the four-day dressage competition.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
Dujardin watched as Hester rode Fernandez around the manège.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
Valegro and Dujardin had the manège to themselves.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
He should have submitted it to the manège, and ridden it then where he pleased.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)
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