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sidesaddle

[ sahyd-sad-l ]

noun

  1. a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.


adverb

  1. seated on a sidesaddle:

    The girl hunted sidesaddle.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sidesaddle1

1485–95; earlier syd saddyl. See side 1, saddle
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Example Sentences

There are women who ride sidesaddle in the West; but they do not ride into the rough trails that we are going to attempt.

You want a horse and sidesaddle to carry off some girl to-night.

"I don't know where you will get a sidesaddle," Stanwood had demurred when the purchase was first proposed.

On occasion of ceremony they ride sidesaddle, but when hunting and hawking they go astride in wholly masculine manner.

I don't think I'd say anything about—the sidesaddle to Miss Lorton—yet.

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