habit
6
9.5
- noun
- /ˈhæbɪt/
- Archaic
:
traje de montar
- Two steps up, she dropped them again, letting the train of her riding habit drag through the dust.
Examples
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In point of fact, she was dressed in the standard habit of her order: brown mantle and outrage.
Fiction book (1992) -
The ladies were dressed in "lovely habits," while the men wore red coats.
Academic text (1992) -
And I'll buy her a blue velvet riding habit.
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I'm taking her to Miller's to be fitted for her riding habit.
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The white mantle over dark-brown habit and the roughly painted face could leave no doubt that it was Sister Constance.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Nun with No Name stopped pacing, pulled up the voluminous sleeve of her habit, and looked at her wristwatch.
Fiction book (1992) -
The skirt of her habit (of course she rode sidesaddle) falls in graceful folds.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sister Ephrem appeared in the form of a huge black-and-white swishing habit, replete with dangling rosary and a too-tight wimple.
Fiction book (1993) -
She wore a stylish riding habit that impressed everyone at the equestrian event.
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The horse riders paraded proudly in their traditional hunting habits at the competition.
Synonyms
1
8.4
A long skirt and jacket that women wear for riding horses
Clothing worn for horse riding or horse shows
Idioms
Compounds
1
7.4
A long loose outer piece of clothing that nuns wear as part of their religious clothes
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Habit also comes from the Latin habitus, which meant 'appearance' or 'condition', and that meaning was used for a person's clothes. So a riding habit is the particular set of clothes a woman wears to ride a horse.