单词 | pomada |
释义 | † pomadan. Obsolete. An act of vaulting on to or over a horse with one hand on the pommel of the saddle. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > vaulting exercises or tricks pomada1596 miller1641 miller's pass1641 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden To Rdr. sig. D3v Mercury..to inspire my pen with some of his nimblest Pomados and Sommersets. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. i. sig. Dv How oft he has done the whole, or the halfe Pommado in a seuen-night before. View more context for this quotation a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 418 He was..very..active. He did the pomado in the saddle of the third horse in his armour. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pomada, an Exercise of vaulting the wooden Horse, by laying one Hand over the Pommel of the Saddle. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xxix. 106 Springing into the air.., he turned him about like a wind-mill, and made above a hundred frisks, turns and demi-pommadas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1596 |
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