Definition of Riding habit

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

Exact synonyms: Habit
Generic synonyms: Attire, Dress, Garb
Terms within: Jodhpur Breeches, Jodhpurs, Riding Breeches, Riding Boot

Definition of Riding habit

1. Noun. A woman's garment for horseback riding. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Riding Habit

ridiculizes
ridiculizing
ridiculosities
ridiculosity
ridiculous
ridiculously
ridiculousness
ridiculousnesses
riding
riding bitt
riding boot
riding breeches
riding crop
riding crops
riding embolism
riding habit
riding habits
riding halter
riding halters
riding horse
riding lamp
riding light
riding master
riding mower
riding school
riding whip
ridings
ridley
ridleys
ridonkulous

Literary usage of Riding habit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"CHAPTER XXIV THE HISTORY OF THE RIDING-HABIT " Some Women (Ob the shame!') like ramping Rigs, Ride flaunting in their powder'd ..."

2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"But, Oh dear, here have they been with a riding habit and the "usual trimmings," and a horse is ready in the stable. I said last night that I used to ride, ..."

3. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"But, Oh dear, here have they been with a riding habit and the "usual trimmings," and a horse is ready in the stable. I said last night that I used to ride, ..."

4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... saw the princess dressed in a riding habit during the day at Schar- nit/; cannot say whether her ..."

5. The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People, as Well as by George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane (1841)
"... of a lady's " white fustian riding- habit turned up with blue and laced with silver, a petticoat of the same, and a waistcoat trimmed also with silver. ..."

6. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"Got up a little after 8, had my hair dress'd for yc day, though I put on as usual for yc morning a riding-habit." After breakfast, she rode on horseback. ..."

7. Studies in the Cost of Urban Transportation Service by Frederick William Doolittle, American Electric Railway Association (1916)
"CHAPTER XIX EFFECT OF RATE OF FARE ON riding habit Public Interest in Rate of Fare, Purposes of Studies of riding habit, Factors Affecting riding habit: ..."

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