riding habit
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈraɪdɪŋ ˈhæbɪt/
- Archaic
:
traje de montar
- In How Not to Dress, Greta loses herself in the logistics of a reversible riding habit.
Examples
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Two steps up, she dropped them again, letting the train of her riding habit drag through the dust.
Fiction book (1991) -
The riding habit was so gorgeous, too.
Blog text (2) -
And I'll buy her a blue velvet riding habit.
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But I've got to have a riding habit.
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Julie, your riding habit?
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Her chief advisor, William Cecil, a stern and steady man of middle age, was torn between admiration and despair for his new young queen, now attired in a purple velvet riding habit, her gold-red hair flying long and unbound behind her.
Fiction book (1998) -
The young woman wore a beautiful riding habit as she prepared for her horseback lesson.
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At the equestrian store, she found the perfect riding habit that matched her horse's saddle.
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During the competition, all the riders looked elegant in their tailored riding habits.
Synonyms
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9.5
A special outfit a woman wears when riding a horse
Clothing worn for horse riding or horse shows
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a riding costume' is directly and transparently composed from 'riding' (relating to horseback riding) modifying 'habit' (here an item of dress), so the overall sense is predictable by combining the constituents. This follows a regular noun+noun/compound pattern and is cross-linguistically comparable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent senses will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun riding habit comes from the old use of the word habit to mean an 'outfit' and riding to mean 'to ride' horses. It was the special jacket, long skirt and sometimes hat women wore to ride, so today 'riding habit' means the clothes worn for horseback riding.