amazone

From French amazone.

amazone (plural amazones)

1. (now chiefly historical) A woman's riding habit. [from 19th c.]
   • 1857, Alexis Soyer, Culinary Campaign:

     Miss Nightingale was attired simply in a genteel amazone […] and had quite a martial air.

From Amazone (“Amazon, female warrior”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.maːˈzɔː.nə/

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• Hyphenation: ama‧zo‧ne
• Rhymes: -ɔːnə

amazone f (plural amazones)

1. female horse rider, female equestrian

• amazonezadel
• amazonezit

• IPA^(key): /a.ma.zon/

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amazone f (plural amazones)

1. Amazon (race of females)
2. amazon (bird)
3. (equestrianism) sidesaddle (riding technique)
4. (now historical) riding habit, amazone

• “amazone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.