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adjective

Equestrian adj.

Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.

Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. "An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains."

Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order.

noun

Equestrian n. One who rides on horseback; a horseman; a rider.

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"Equestrian" Quotes from Famous Books

... to all. Everyone has seen the Chugwater Column in Aldwych, the equestrian statue in Chugwater Road (formerly Piccadilly), and the picture-postcards in the stationers' windows. That bulging forehead, distended with useful information; that massive chin; those eyes, gleaming behind ...

— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse

... are revealed. He published successively: An Essay regarding Two Great Obligations to be fulfilled by the French (1804), An Essay on the Methods of preventing Thefts and Assassinations (1807), A Pamphlet regarding the Equestrian Statue which the French People ought to raise to perpetuate the Memory of Henry IV (1815), The History of Hydrophobia (1819), etc. In the first of these works Francois Balzac proposed that a monument should be raised to commemorate the glory of Napoleon and the French ...

— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet

... antiquity, making what had hitherto seemed a remote island sequestered from them by a trackless flood of years, living and real. Those obscure solitudes which their imagination had peopled with spectral equestrian statues, are rescued by the sound of his cheery voice as part of the familiar and daylight world. We suspect that Agesilaus on his hobby-horse first humanized antiquity for most of us. Here was the human footprint which persuaded us that the ...

— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell

... splendid animal, seventeen hands high and finely formed. The last time that General Scott mounted him was in the latter part of 1859, which he did with the aid of a stepladder, for the purpose of having an equestrian portrait painted for the State of Virginia. The war coming on, the picture passed into possession of the Mercantile Library of ...

— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... canvas, it would have added new renown to his pencil. Savage figures surrounded our tent, with quivers at their backs, and guns, lances, or tomahawks in their hands. Some sat on horseback, motionless as equestrian statues, their arms crossed on their breasts, their eyes fixed in a steady unwavering gaze upon us. Some stood erect, wrapped from head to foot in their long white robes of buffalo hide. Some sat together on the grass, holding their shaggy horses by a rope, with their broad dark busts exposed ...

— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

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