| 词汇 | horsewoman |
| 释义 | horsewoman noun[ C ] uk /ˈhɔːsˌwʊm.ən/ us /ˈhɔːrsˌwʊm.ən/plural-womenuk /ˈhɔːsˌwɪm.ɪn/ us /ˈhɔːrsˌwɪm.ɪn/ a woman who rides a horse, especially one who rides well : 女骑手 She's a keen horsewoman.她是一位热衷于骑马的女士。 Compare horseman Horse riding barrel racing break someone in bridle bridle path canter capriole chukka chukker curry girth high-spirited horseman mounted pony trekking rein riderless saddler showjumper sidesaddle whip Examples of horsewomanhorsewoman More than any other element of her dress, the simplicity of her accessories marked the horsewoman's good taste. Along with a general mastery of equitation, the polished horsewoman was judged not merely or even primarily on her athletic skill, but on her appearance. She is both a horsewoman and a cyclist, but while hunting, her skirt is ripped off in a fall and carried off by her steed. The yards of dangling fabric were another, more real danger to the horsewoman. A horsewoman's functional and minimal accessories were of the utmost importance. Though masculinized in many ways, the tightly-molded habit displayed the horsewoman's form to advantage. And in the 1860s, the horsewoman was in the vanguard of style in women's publications. The modern horsewoman represents a turning point in the history of female dress. The image of the horsewoman is better understood by using a wide variety of sources, including carte-de-visite photographs, fashion journals, equitation manuals, and caricatures. The horsewoman's skirts were not to fly up at inopportune moments. The reverse of these competent if masculine horsewomen was the overly feminized woman of fashion. When early forms of the velocipede appeared, caricaturists could only imagine her riding in the same posture as the horsewoman. In fact, if a rider were too sporting and loud in her appearance, she suggested that she was not a true horsewoman at all. I will examine how the horsewoman negotiated these tensions between constraint and liberty. Like the horsewoman who preceded her, the bicyclist was morally censured for her velocity. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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