à cheval

American  

[a shuh-val, ah shuh-val] / a ʃəˈval, ˈɑ ʃəˈvæl /

French.

1. by horse; on horseback.

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à cheval British  

/ a ʃəval /

adverb

1. (of a bet, esp in roulette) made on two adjacent numbers, cards, etc

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Etymology

Origin of à cheval

literally: on horseback

Example Sentences

Not that Hugot was by any means a noted hunter—quite the contrary—nor a warrior neither, notwithstanding he had been a chasseur à cheval, and wore such fierce moustachios.

From The Boy Hunters by Unknown

When to these are added the gendarmes à pied and à cheval, who are constantly in motion, one sees that the risk of breaking the laws is attended with more hazard here than with us.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore

Trois cavalières, bien montées, L'un à cheval, et l'autre à pied; L'on, lon, laridon daine, Lon, ton, laridon dai.

From The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Turner, Frederick Jackson

What an effect has been missed by not bringing them in on real horses, and giving them a quartette or a sestette à cheval, with a solo for the Captain!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various

Presently, a party of fifteen or twenty gendarmes à cheval came up, and wheeled into line.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore