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Equestrienne

Equestrienne \E*ques"tri*enne`\, n. [Formed after analogy of the French language.] A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.

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equestrienne

n. a female equestrian

Usage examples of "equestrienne".

The charming lady doing the cooking is our Madame Solitaire, equestrienne extraordinaire.

He cracked the whip to start the women and horses circling in their equestrienne routine and, after he had several times cracked it to direct the women to assume one pose after another, and several times gently flicked the horses to make them change pace, Elise shouted something in German.

The Comtesse de Chabrillan was once, like Clover Lee, an equestrienne of a circus, le Cirque Franconi.

We will also lose our star equestrienne to the Comte de Lareinty, whom I believe all of you met last night.

Comtesse, that our shows today will be pelted with vegetables instead of flowers, when the jossers fail to see the pink-clad equestrienne who has for so many months been our star attraction and the toast of all Paris.

The equestrienne knelt beside Niall at the same instant Athena placed herself between Morgan and her brother.

Then he beckoned to Andy as the equestrienne smiled pleasantly at him.

The equestrienne sharply halted the man who led her horse forward for a dash into the ring.

The equestrienne sank gracefully to a rest on the flank of the big white horse, patting him affectionately, while some hands began rolling great tubs into the ring.

As the equestrienne shrank to the neck of the trembling horse upon which she sat, the timber just grazed her spangled hair.

He is guarding the garbage-can horse, the garbage-can equestrienne, the horse trainer, and a cello full of all-healing music.

The Equestrienne equestered, and the Widos hopped through hoops, and all the while I kept up my patter and spouted all the rot I could remember.

Olympic-quality equestrienne, and, to hear him tell it, had a body that was strictly Playmate-of-the-Year category.

He lirruped and chirruped to the girl in the way the equestrienne invokes docility in a shy horse and led her through the maze of hovels until they debouched abruptly upon a glittering street.

Edge, Autumn, ex-Troop Sergeant Yount and equestriennes Clover Lee and Monday sat, among a number of other and presumably noble spectators, in the pillared gallery above the acre of tanbark riding area, while a string orchestra in the loggia played and eight gorgeously uniformed officers put their eight extraordinary stallions through their extraordinary paces.