单词 | haute école |
释义 | haute écolen. The more difficult feats of horsemanship. Also attributive and transferred (esp. in Music). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > the more difficult feats high school1857 haute école1858 1858 J. S. Rarey Mod. Art of taming Wild Horses (new ed.) 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. 1864 G. A. Sala Quite Alone I. xi. 191 She was doing the haute école. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 13 Sept. 2/4 The haute-école acts of the prima donna and tenor. 1896 Strand Mag. Mar. 334/2 Five other ‘artistes’—trapezists, haute école, and ‘bare~back’ ladies. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 247/3 The excellent haute-école rider seen at the Kingsway Opera House. 1953 G. Brooke Introd. Riding vii. 69 Genuine ‘Haute École’, as maintained and demonstrated today. 1955 Times 15 Aug. 5/5 An energetic circus performer of the haute école. 1959 Listener 30 Apr. 776/2 Balakirev's Islamey is written in close imitation of Liszt's haute école. 1959 Elizabethan July 12/2 The haute-école of gundog training demands an intricate relationship of understanding between man and dog. 1960 Times 4 June 9/3 It is even more gratifying to hear the superbly groomed haute école pianism on the disc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1858 |
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