bridoon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bridoon
1745–55; < French, Middle French bridon, equivalent to bride bridle ( see bride 2) + -on noun suffix
Example Sentences
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Anyone who knows a martingale from a bridoon knows that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring.
From Time Magazine Archive
In bygone days, when a family tree was a ticket of admission to the National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of the usual bridoon, he rode with a double strap of leather, exactly the width of a bridle-rein, and twice its thickness, resting where the snaffle ordinarily lies, on the horse’s tongue and bars.
From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John)
Back to the horse, to be again assailed by Number Two for not having obeyed the order about the bridoon and stirrup-irons.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by Murray, David Christie
Sit as far back as ever you can, and, if Oriental courtesy have put an English bit and bridoon in a mouth by education intended for a spiked curb, leave the whole contraption alone.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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