单词 | hippodamous |
释义 | hippodamousadj. rare. Involved in or relating to the training of horses; characteristic or reminiscent of a horse trainer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [adjective] > relating to horse-breaking > relating to a horse-breaker rough-riding1802 horse-taming1836 hippodamous1894 1894 Athenæum 1 Sept. 284/3 As it is in the capacity of a gentleman horsebreaker that his fame is great and most widely spread, it is only right make a note of the hippodamous gentry who receive more or less attention from him. 1894 Athenæum 1 Sept. 285/1 Capt. Hayes..became an itinerant horsebreaker and horse-tamer..and an author of renown in the field of hippodamous and hippological literature. 1988 G. Jones Sel. Poems iv. 135 He is dressed in a style, not bohemian, not artistic, but vaguely hippodamous, appropriate to one proposing to attend some remote rural horseshow and to gain admission without paying. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1894 |
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