à dos de cheval - translation to English
DICLIB.COM
AI-based language tools
Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:     

Translation and analysis of words by artificial intelligence

On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:

  • how the word is used
  • frequency of use
  • it is used more often in oral or written speech
  • word translation options
  • usage examples (several phrases with translation)
  • etymology

à dos de cheval - translation to English

TYPE OF LIGHT INFANTRY OR LIGHT CAVALRY THAT ORIGINATED IN FRANCE DURING THE 18TH CENTURY
Chasseurs; Chasseurs à Cheval; Chasseurs à cheval; Chasseurs a cheval; Chasseurs a Cheval; Cazador (infantry); Chasseurs à Pied; Chasseurs à pied
  • ''The Charging Chasseur'' by [[Théodore Géricault]], depicting an officer of the [[Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale]]
  • Chasseur d'Afrique in 1914
  • Chasseurs à cheval in Paris, 1906
  • ''Chasseurs à pied bugler'', illustration by [[Édouard Detaille]] in ''L'Armee Française'' (1885)
  • World War I memorial to the chasseurs à pied in [[Charleroi]]

à dos de cheval      
on horseback

Definition

dos-a-dos
[?d??z?'d??]
¦ adjective (of two books) bound together with a shared central board and facing in opposite directions.
¦ noun (plural same) a seat or carriage in which the occupants sit back to back.
Origin
Fr., 'back to back'.

Wikipedia

Chasseur

Chasseur ( shass-UR, French: [ʃasœʁ]), a French term for "hunter", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light infantry (chasseurs à pied) or light cavalry (chasseurs à cheval) to denote troops trained for rapid action.