单词 | hippodromist |
释义 | † hippodromistn. Obsolete. A person who performs in a hippodrome (in various senses of hippodrome n.). Also: a person who arranges or stages an entertainment in a hippodrome.With quot. 1840 compare quot. 1841 at hippodamist n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > circus performance > [noun] > performer horse-rider1580 strongman1701 hippodromist1840 desultor1880 Auguste1900 1840 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 659/1 The present famous hippodromist at Windsor, by touching a nerve in the mouth of a horse, reduces him to helpless docility and submission. 1886 Daily News 14 Dec. 3/1 The hippodromists confess that they have to get their clever ponies from Scotland and Wales. 1914 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Reporter 28 Feb. 2/2 A proposed match race between the hippodromist [sc. a racing car driver] and Burman was called off. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018). < n.1840 |
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