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‖ haute école|ot ekɔl|
[Fr., = high school. Cf. school n.1 3 d.]
The more difficult feats of horsemanship. Also attrib. and transf. (esp. in Mus.).
1858Rarey's Art of Taming Horses i. 5 The accomplished Colonel Greenwood, who was equally learned in the manége of the Haute Ecole, and skilled in the style of the English hunting-fields. 1864G. A. Sala Quite Alone I. xi. 191 She was doing the haute école. 1889G. B. Shaw London Mus. 1888–89 (1937) 215 The haute-école acts of the prima donna and tenor. 1896Strand Mag. Mar. 334/2 Five other ‘artistes’—trapezists, haute école, and ‘bare⁓back’ ladies. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 247/3 The excellent haute-école rider seen at the Kingsway Opera House. 1953G. Brooke Introd. Riding vii. 69 Genuine ‘Haute École’, as maintained and demonstrated today. 1955Times 15 Aug. 5/5 An energetic circus performer of the haute école. 1959Listener 30 Apr. 776/2 Balakirev's Islamey is written in close imitation of Liszt's haute école. 1959[see gun-dog (gun n. 17)]. 1960Times 4 June 9/3 It is even more gratifying to hear the superbly groomed haute école pianism on the disc. |