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high-stepper

noun

  1. a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground when walking or trotting

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“But yellow shoes,” she added, “those would be extraordinary. You had to be a high-stepper to have them or to wear them or to pay for them.”

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Come to find out, she thought that back before I got married, when I was a high-stepper and chased girls, I had led Jackie astray.

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She's a high-stepper, that Jeanne, and I should pity the man who got her and didn't understand her.

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My, wasn’t she a high-stepper, purty as they make ’em; but her hair couldn’t shine along o’ Bess’s here.

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On revisiting the earth it is found that the owner of a high-stepper, threatened with speed, can now only lead a shame-faced kind of existence.

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