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
During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger.
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
At 13, her riding master, a onetime Portuguese bullfighter named Ruy Da Camara, taught her the art of the rejoneador�at first with calves, then with more & more ferocious bulls.
From Time Magazine Archive
The riding master at last took the lady off, and mounted the horse himself; but he rode with a man's seat, not a woman's.
From The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises by Moustache, Vielle
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