à cheval
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of à cheval
literally: on horseback
Example Sentences
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The Corso forms the evening drive and promenade à cheval of the beau monde.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
She had a partner worthy of her in the shape of a sedate young Russian, resplendent in the white-and-gold uniform of the imperial Gardes à cheval.
From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
And the spy knew had she beheld an army corps it would have been no more significant, no more menacing, than the solitary chasseur à cheval scouting in advance of the enemy.
From Somewhere in France by Richard Harding Davis
"I shall play the two numbers à cheval."
From The Guests Of Hercules by M. Leone Bracker
Presently, a party of fifteen or twenty gendarmes à cheval came up, and wheeled into line.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
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