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riding master

American  

noun

  1. a person who teaches equitation.


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.

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

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any decent sort of a riding master might take her in hand.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann