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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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
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
It may be urged that both for horses and men there is a distinct advantage in beginning again every year with bridoon riding.
From Cavalry in Future Wars by Charles Sydney Goldman
Of course, to achieve this they must not be put back every autumn to the very ABC of their work—riding on the bridoon.
From Cavalry in Future Wars by Charles Sydney Goldman
Have your curb-bit sufficiently powerful, if not high in the port, at any rate long in the cheek, your bridoon as thick as your saddler can be induced to send it.
From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
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