riding master
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of riding master
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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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
Max Oser, 65, Swiss riding master whose marriage to Mathilde McCormick hit the nation's front pages in 1923; of heart disease; in Gland, Switzerland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
No riding master will give lessons to a person who behaves so.
From In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda by Browne, Theo. Stephenson
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