haute école
Americannoun
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a series of intricate steps, gaits, etc., taught to an exhibition horse.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of haute école
< French: literally, high school
Example Sentences
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Do they not bore us with the haute école, and weary us with Shakespearean clowns?—Still, at least, they give us acrobats, and the acrobat is an artist.
From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert
A section of the fire department passes, that imposing but amusing procession of hand-engine, three water-barrels, pennons, and fine horses trained in the haute école, which does splendid work with apparently inadequate means.
From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
As soon as she remarks that a man has a hobby-horse, she makes him ride it, puts it through all its paces, caracoling, leaping, haute école.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
Of course, the more sensible animal of the two is knocked up; whilst the rider assumes the airs of one versed in the haute école.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
She knew that she was safe in trusting to the skill and training of her horse to accomplish successfully all the stereotyped movements of the haute école.
From The Hippodrome by Hayward, Rachel
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