英语词汇“high、stepper”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

high-stepper

释义

ˈhigh-ˌstepper
A horse which lifts its feet high from the ground in walking and trotting; transf. a person of stately walk or bearing. So ˈhigh-ˌstepping a.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair li. 456 Splendid high-stepping carriage horses.1860Mrs. J. H. Riddell Too Much Alone xxix, [The beauty] which makes a woman be called, when young and in good action, ‘showy’ and ‘a high-stepper’.1880Ouida Moths II. 54 She drove..very high-stepping English horses.1886‘Maxwell Gray’ Silence Dean Maitland I. i. 9 A dog-cart, drawn by a high-stepping chestnut.Ibid. 10 Sending the high-stepper flying along the level down-road like the wind.1973D. Ramsay Deadly Discretion 63 A millionaire..is pretty high stepping for a two-bit dancer.

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