riding master
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of riding master
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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The news came from Lake Neuchatel, Switzer land, where Mathilde McCormick Oser, my granddaughter, and her husband, a Swiss riding master, have a chateau.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Any decent sort of a riding master might take her in hand.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
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