RIDING HABIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riding habit mean? 

• RIDING HABIT (noun)
  The noun RIDING HABIT has 1 sense:

1. attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire)

  Familiarity information: RIDING HABIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIDING HABIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

habit; riding habit

Hypernyms ("riding habit" is a kind of...):

attire; dress; garb (clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion)

Meronyms (parts of "riding habit"):

jodhpur breeches; jodhpurs; riding breeches ((used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots)

riding boot (a boot without laces that is worn for riding horses; part of a riding habit)

 Context examples 

They were a party of three on horseback—Tom and a man named Sloane and a pretty woman in a brown riding habit who had been there previously.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)