sidesaddle
a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.
seated on a sidesaddle: The girl hunted sidesaddle.
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How to use sidesaddle in a sentence
There are women who ride sidesaddle in the West; but they do not ride into the rough trails that we are going to attempt.
Ruth Fielding In the Saddle | Alice B. EmersonYou want a horse and sidesaddle to carry off some girl to-night.
The Purple Land | W. H. Hudson"I don't know where you will get a sidesaddle," Stanwood had demurred when the purchase was first proposed.
Peak and Prairie | Anna FullerOn occasion of ceremony they ride sidesaddle, but when hunting and hawking they go astride in wholly masculine manner.
Life on a Mediaeval Barony | William Stearns DavisI don't think I'd say anything about—the sidesaddle to Miss Lorton—yet.
Nell, of Shorne Mills | Charles Garvice
British Dictionary definitions for side-saddle
a riding saddle originally designed for women riders in skirts who sit with both legs on the near side of the horse
on or as if on a side-saddle: to be riding side-saddle
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