riding master
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of riding master
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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In 1735 the Spanish Riding School was established in Vienna to train the finest Lipizzan stallions in the classic battle tactics devised by a French riding master named Antoine Pluvinel.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is Lily Czepanek, a Berlin model who suffers successively from associations with a drunken, tyrannical aunt, a faithless lover, a brutish husband and a riding master.
From Time Magazine Archive
The news came from Lake Neuchatel, Switzer land, where Mathilde McCormick Oser, my granddaughter, and her husband, a Swiss riding master, have a chateau.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Max Oser, daughter of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, wife of a onetime Swiss riding master, changed the names of her children, Anita and Peter, from Oser to Oser-McCormick.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was by way of being a riding master, but for all the attention he paid I might have been alone.
From Fanny Goes to War by Washington, Pat Beauchamp
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