riding master

American  

noun

1. a person who teaches equitation.

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Etymology

Origin of riding master

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

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

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

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

But the young supplicant for equestrian honours was not to be denied; she continued to implore and weep, and, the riding master coming to her aid, the mother gave way.

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