dressage

English

WOTD – 7 August 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from French dressage (“training”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɛs.ɑːʒ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːʒ

Noun

dressage (countable and uncountable, plural dressages)

1. (uncountable) The schooling of a horse.
2. (uncountable) An equestrian sport in which the horse and rider perform a test of specific movements in an arena, and are judged on the horse's obedience, acceptance of the bridle and of the rider's aids, gaits, impulsion, and the harmony between horse and rider.
3. (countable) An event or competition of the sport of dressage.

   I'm competing in two dressages and a jumping show this weekend.

Synonyms

• (the training of a horse): flatwork, training, haute ecole (high school), classical dressage, (poetically) ballet on horseback

Derived terms

• para-dressage

Translations

schooling of a horse

• Armenian: մարզում (hy) (marzum), վարժեցում (hy) (varžecʻum)
• Bulgarian: обяздване n (objazdvane)
• Finnish: hevosen kouluttaminen
• French: dressage (fr) m
• German: Dressur (de) f
• Hungarian: idomítás (hu)
• Italian: dressage (it) m, addestramento (it) m, raddrizzamento (it) m
• Polish: dresaż m, ujeżdżenie n
• Russian: объе́здка (ru) f (obʺjézdka) (лошаде́й), дрессу́ра (ru) f (dressúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јахалиште n, јахаоница f

  Roman: jahalište (sh) n, jahaonica (sh) f

• Spanish: adiestramiento (es) m, entrenamiento (es) m
• Swedish: dressyr (sv) c, hästdressyr c

horse sport

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盛裝舞步／盛装舞步 (shèngzhuāngwǔbù)

• Finnish: kouluratsastus (fi)
• French: dressage (fr) m
• German: Dressurreiten (de) n
• Hungarian: díjlovaglás (hu)
• Italian: dressage (it) m
• Polish: ujeżdżenie n
• Russian: вы́ездка (ru) f (výjezdka)
• Spanish: adiestramiento (es) m, doma clásica f
• Swedish: dressyr (sv) c, hästdressyr c

event of the horse sport

• Bulgarian: парку́р m (parkúr)
• Finnish: kouluratsastus (fi)
• German: Turnier (de) n, Reitschau f, Springreiten (de) n, Dressurwettkampf m
• Russian: вы́ездка (ru) f (výjezdka)

Anagrams

• de Grasse, degasser, regassed

French

Etymology

From dresser +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɛ.saʒ/ ~ /dʁe.saʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

dressage m (plural dressages)

1. training
2. dressage

Descendants

• → English: dressage

Further reading

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