riding dress

noun

An outfit (later especially a woman's dress) worn to go riding.

First used 17th c.
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Meanings

nounriding dress (countable and uncountable, plural riding dresses)

plural riding dresses

  1. countableuncountableAn outfit (later especially a woman's dress) worn to go riding.First known use 17th c.

    Enter Captain Tomlinson in a riding dress, whip in hand.

    1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC
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