bridle road
- noun
- UK
:
camino de caballos
- The old bridle road winds gently through the forest, offering riders a peaceful journey.
Examples
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Hikers and cyclists often share the bridle road with horses in the national park.
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A sign at the entrance marks the start of the bridle road, warning that vehicles are not permitted.
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The bridle road was empty this morning.
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Many riders prefer the bridle roads in the countryside.
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A sign at the entrance marks the start of the bridle road, warning that vehicles are not permitted.
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Hikers and cyclists often share the bridle road with horses in the national park.
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The old bridle road winds gently through the forest, offering riders a peaceful journey.
Synonyms
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5.8
A path for riding or leading horses, not for vehicles
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3.0
A path for people who ride horses
How Horse-Friendly
Surface Forms
Morphology
If a B1 learner knows 'bridle' (horse control equipment) and 'road', they can reasonably infer that a 'bridle road' is a road associated with horses (i.e., for riding or leading horses rather than motor vehicles). This composition follows a transparent noun+noun compounding pattern and has clear cross-linguistic parallels (e.g. 'bridleway', 'horse path'), so the meaning is predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Bridle road comes from bridle, the gear a rider uses to guide a horse, and road, meaning a path. It is a path made for horses to be ridden or led, so a bridle road means a track 'for horses' and usually 'not for cars'.