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‖ manège, manege|manɛʒ|
[Fr. form of the word earlier adopted as manage n.]
1. A riding school. (Cf. manage n.)
1644Evelyn Diary 25 Oct., The Prince has a stable of the finest horses of all countries,..which are continually exercised in the manège. 1705Addison Italy 521, I saw here the largest Manege that I have met with any where else. 1756H. Walpole Lett., to Bentley Aug. (1857) III. 32 The horseman Duke's manège is converted into a lofty stable. 1799J. Adams (title) Analysis of Horsemanship, teaching the Whole Art of Riding in the Manege. 1833Regul. Instr. Cavalry i. 40 It is..desirable that all Cavalry should be often exercised in Open Manege. Ibid. 41 The Troops..are to be drilled..in the Open Manege.
2. a. The movements proper to a trained horse; the art or practice of training and managing horses; horsemanship. (Cf. manage n. 1.)
1776Gibbon Decl. & F. ix. (1869) I. 182 Practised in the skilful evolutions of the Roman manege. 1791Beckford Pop. Tales Germans I. 242 A knightly steed, well instructed in the manege. 1814Scott Wav. (1816) I. vii. 94 Already a good horseman, he was now initiated into the arts of the manege. 1826― Woodst. III. i. 12 He seemed a champion of the menage, fit to have reined Bucephalus himself.
b. transf. and fig.
1825T. Moore Mem. Life R. B. Sheridan II. xxi. 493 Had his talents, even then, been subjected to the manège of a profession. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. iv. 214 In the cars' manège war-skill appears. 1973Times 12 Jan. 10/6 She has given up even attempting the fouettés in the ballroom scene; but if the manège she substituted was slightly tame, Nureyev made up by the electrifying speed of his pirouettes. |