What is "equestriennes"

Usage examples of "equestriennes".

There was no trapeze act and curiously, for a city so studded with statues of horses, not even a liberty or voltige turn, but only a number of rather mediocre equestriennes doing bareback postures and leaps.

The Russian equestriennes were nowhere near so talented as Monday and Clover Lee, and the djigit or voltige riders were tame compared to the Jászis.

By the time Sarah was born, The Meadows, as home was called, was down to forty acres and had taken to boarding horses for urban equestriennes, whom her father described as women who liked to ride without getting any shit on their boots.

I am reminded of nothing so much as the equestriennes at Astley’s Amphitheatre.

A ring horse is one that just goes round the ring for the bareback riders and equestriennes to perform on.