amazone

See also: Amazone

English

Etymology

From French amazone.

Noun

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.

Dutch

Etymology

From Amazone (“Amazon, female warrior”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.maːˈzɔː.nə/

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

Noun

amazone f (plural amazones, no diminutive)

1. female horse rider, female equestrian

Derived terms

• amazonezadel
• amazonezit

French

Etymology

Latin Amāzones, Amāzōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ma.zon/

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Noun

amazone f (plural amazones)

1. (Greek mythology) Amazon (race of females)
2. amazon parrot
3. (equestrianism) sidesaddle (riding technique)
4. (equestrianism, now historical) riding habit, amazone
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     — Eh! comment veux-tu que je monte à cheval, puisque je n'ai pas d'amazone?
     — Il faut t'en commander une! répondit-il.

     “And how do you think I can ride when I haven't got a habit? “You must order one,” he answered.

Descendants

• → English: amazone

Further reading

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