riding master
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of riding master
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
The morning after that first ride he was the same cringing riding master as before, outdoing himself in respectfulness and over-polite while rigorous in imparting instruction.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
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