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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
horsewoman
noun
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▪ A naturally gifted sportswoman, she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards.
▪ And yet now, it seemed, he considered her to be a horsewoman.
▪ Andrew Lloyd-Webber's new wife, horsewoman Madeline Gurdon, has tried to smarten him up.
▪ She had great artistic talents; she was a skilled horsewoman.
▪ She is an accomplished horsewoman, a skill which ranks highly in aristocratic circles but one in which Diana is lacking.
▪ She no longer needed the groom to accompany her when she rode out, since she was now a proficient horsewoman.
▪ The inquest heard Mrs Weaver was an experienced horsewoman with the correct protective clothing and headgear.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horsewoman

Horsewoman \Horse"wom`an\, n.; pl. Horsewomen. A woman who rides on horseback.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
horsewoman

1560s, from horse (n.) + woman. See horseman.

Wiktionary
horsewoman

n. a woman who is skilled with horses, a female equestrian

WordNet
horsewoman

n. a woman horseman

Wikipedia
Horsewoman (painting)

Horsewoman is a painting by Russian painter Rudolf Frentz (1888-1956). The picture is a portrait of an equestrian of the artist's wife Catherine Anisimovna Stulovskaya (née Frentz).

Usage examples of "horsewoman".

What gave special vim to our work was the fact that Miss Frances was a horsewoman herself, and it was with difficulty that she could be kept away from the corrals.

Born to the soil of Texas, she was a horsewoman of no ordinary ability, and rode like a veteran.

Victoria was an excellent rider, an accomplished horsewoman who knew her mount well.

She was enough of a horsewoman to know that it was up to her to hold the mare steady and encourage her on.

Your cousin is an intrepid horsewoman, and might become an accomplished one, but you should teach her not to ride at a hedge as if she had a stretch of water to clear.

Lindeth called at Staples to leave compliment cards, she told him, with a provocative look under her lashes, that his cousin, learning that although she was an accomplished horsewoman in the saddle she had never found anyone capable of teaching her how to handle the reins in form, had begged to be allowed to offer his services.

A born horsewoman, she had watched with breathless admiration the onrush of the loose-rein riders--the graceful swaying of their bodies, and the flapping of soft hat brims, as their horses approached with a thunder of pounding hoofs.

The girl was a devoted horsewoman and with the feel of the horse under her, her spirits revived and she drew in a long breath of the fragrant night.

She could read and write Latin and do grand needlework, yet proved to be a skillful archer with the small crossbow, and a horsewoman of their equal.

You are an admirable horsewoman, as I know, and I have an excellent horse in town that would carry you easily that distance without fatiguing you.

She regarded Perry with the look of a horsewoman sniffing a riding crop.

Ida, quietly, as she looked at the graceful horsewoman, at the lithe, full figure, the cold perfection of the Grecian face.

Camila, her head seamlessly edited to the body of a bandy-legged horsewoman, propped her cutlass on the shoulder of her yak-hide coat and looked at the gathering throng with nervous amusement.

Since you are an accomplished horsewoman, I thought you would prefer Cantor.

Libby Custer and Mollie were both excellent horsewomen and Lucky quickly adapted to the use of a sidesaddle, though she would have preferred the western variety with which she was familiar.