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horse marine
noun
- (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
- a person out of their proper or natural place.
horse marine
noun
- (formerly) a mounted marine or cavalryman serving in a ship
- someone out of his natural element, as if a member of an imaginary body of marine cavalry
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Word History and Origins
Origin of horse marine1
First recorded in 1810–20
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Example Sentences
What, do you mean to say that lankey, horse-marine looking fellow is as bad as that!
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Tell me, Jack Pringle, what did the long horse-marine-looking slab say to it?
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He did not look much like a horse-marine, but reminded me more of a city hosier.
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