à cheval
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of à cheval
literally: on horseback
Example Sentences
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If his wife rides out, he attends her à cheval.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt
The Garde-du-corps, Mousquetaires gris, Grenadiers à cheval, French, Swiss, and Bavarian guards, as well as the Irish brigade, stood among the combatants.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
Presently, a party of fifteen or twenty gendarmes à cheval came up, and wheeled into line.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
"Ah was been lee'l garçon—lee'l bébé, no père; ma mère was been—how you say?—gypsee à cheval, hein?" he appealed to McCann.
From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick
The Corso forms the evening drive and promenade à cheval of the beau monde.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
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