horsewomanship love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Skill as a horsewoman.

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  • noun A woman's ability to ride a horse.

Etymologies

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horsewoman +‎ -ship

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Examples

  • Once, and briefly, Cynthia had tried to teach the rudiments of horsewomanship to the Finshaws 'teenage daughter, a vicious little bundle of pouts and sneers named Frisia.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Once, and briefly, Cynthia had tried to teach the rudiments of horsewomanship to the Finshaws 'teenage daughter, a vicious little bundle of pouts and sneers named Frisia.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Daring horsewomanship would greatly increase that following, and therefore the financial returns of these Western pictures.

    Jean of the Lazy A 1915

  • Gypo Jo they called her, and she was known all over the West, where her foster father's operations were confined, and stories of her beauty and horsewomanship had gone East and North and South, for railroad-construction laborers are a nomadic brood and repeat their tales and traditions from coast to coast.

    The She Boss A Western Story Arthur Preston Hankins 1906

  • Daring horsewomanship would greatly increase that following, and therefore the financial returns of these

    Jean of the Lazy A B. M. Bower 1905

  • At Singapore, drag-hunting provides good sport in which ladies participate, and show their fine horsewomanship to admiring friends, when the run finishes over the fences on the racecourse.

    The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873

  • My uncle had a riding-habit made for me, and after a week found I could give him no more trouble with my horsewomanship.

    The Flight of the Shadow George MacDonald 1864

  • Through the long summer afternoon it went on: wonders of horsemanship and horsewomanship; hair - raising exploits on wires, tight and slack; giddy tricks on the high trapeze; feats of leaping and tumbling in the rings; while the tireless musicians blatted inspiringly through it all, only pausing long enough to allow that uproarious jester, the clown, to ask the ring-master what he would do if a young lady came up and kissed him on the street, and to exploit his hilarities during the short intervals of rest for the athletes.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

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