Definition of "riding-skirt" []

• The skirt of a riding-habit. (noun)
• A separate skirt fastened around the waist over the other dress, worn by women in riding. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She leaned forward under the flying steel, which cut through her riding-skirt, through the edge of the saddle, through the saddle cloth, and even slightly into the horse itself."
• "The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy."
• "I wish she would lift up that lang veil, or put off that riding-skirt, Doctor."