amazones

Now, to make our indiscretion complete, we have only to peep into the _salon des amazones_, a room draped in green velvet and decorated with whips, stirrups, and side-saddles.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Numbers of pretty girls in their graceful _amazones_ galloped by on horseback, with their attendant _caballeros_.

Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

But then comes into view first the sea, stretching away into infinite silence and solitude, dotted over on sunny days with pleasure-boats; and next, perpetually dashing along the league of sea-borded highway, group after group of gay riding-parties of all ages and both sexes -- Spanish hats, feathers, and riding-habits -- _amazones_, according to the French classic title, in the majority.

A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid 1846

_amazones_ arrived in rapidly-succeeding parties, and gathered on the high ground.

A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid 1846