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equestrian
/ɪˈkwɛstɹiən/
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What does equestrian mean?
adjective
- Of horseback riding or horseback riders.
noun
- One who rides a horse.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- (historical) Of or relating to the ancient Roman class of equites.
noun
- (historical) Synonym of eques.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪˈkwɛstɹiən/
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Better than anything else she liked a great equestrian statue of an evil, cruel-looking general with an unpronounceable name.
On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
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He maintained three thousand swordsmen, and had always about him a company of young men of the equestrian class ready for all occasions, whom he styled his Anti-Senate.
It includes trappings and horsemanship as well, so that the correct or reputably beautiful seat or posture is also decided by English usage, as well as the equestrian gait.
Esmeralda was his pupil, and he would have taken the whole centennial quadrille and all the cabinet ladies to point his moral, had he seen them making equestrian blunders.