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HORSEWOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horsewoman mean?
• HORSEWOMAN (noun)
The noun HORSEWOMAN has 1 sense:
1. a woman horseman
Familiarity information: HORSEWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman horseman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("horsewoman" is a kind of...):
equestrian; horseback rider; horseman (a man skilled in equitation)
Context examples
Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, was determined to go to her, though the carriage was not to be had; and as she was no horsewoman, walking was her only alternative.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
On his side were the inquiries,—“Was she a horsewoman?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Active and fearless, and though rather small, strongly made, she seemed formed for a horsewoman; and to the pure genuine pleasure of the exercise, something was probably added in Edmund's attendance and instructions, and something more in the conviction of very much surpassing her sex in general by her early progress, to make her unwilling to dismount.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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