sidesaddle

[ sahyd-sad-l ]

/ ˈsaɪdˌsæd l /

a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.

seated on a sidesaddle: The girl hunted sidesaddle.

Origin of sidesaddle

1485–95; earlier syd saddyl. See side¹, saddle

That broad back carried, however, most comfortably a side-saddle or a pillion.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England |Alice Morse Earle
I must take them with me, but you can have your side-saddle.

Nevermore |Rolf Boldrewood
Did you really take that pair of French corsets for a side-saddle, sir?

Highlife in New York: a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, |Ann S. Stephens
Here, Tom Leicester, you put my side-saddle on that gray horse, and the man's saddle on the piebald there.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 |Various

Of course, in the side-saddle, the tendency of all beginners is to carry the right shoulder forward and higher than the left.

Riding and Driving for Women |Belle Beach

side-saddle

a riding saddle originally designed for women riders in skirts who sit with both legs on the near side of the horse

on or as if on a side-saddle to be riding side-saddle