Meanings
red rider1
Red Rider2
- Alternative letter-case form of red rider.
When she finally spoke, the word came out as a breathy whisper. “War?” ¶ “The Red Rider,” the woman agreed.
2010, Jackie Morse Kessler, Hunger (fiction), Boston; New York: Graphia, →ISBN, page 671 more example
Came, as the prophet from his lonely shore / To man foretold, a thousand years before, / When the Red Rider—minister of wrath, / Rode on his desolating, destin'd path!
1833, A. W. Fenton, “To the Spirit of Byron”, in Midnight in London, and Other Poems, Penrith, page 108
Origin
A reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a red horse is War.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish czerwony jeździec
- czerwony jeździecone of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
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