Red Rider

See also: red rider

English
The Second Horseman of the Apocalypse, stained glass window in the parish church St-Jean de Montmartre.

Etymology

A reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the rider of a red horse being War.

Proper noun

the Red Rider

  1. The personification of war, often depicted in armor and riding a red horse.
    • 2010, Jackie Morse Kessler, Hunger (fiction), Boston; New York: Graphia, →ISBN, page 67:
      When she finally spoke, the word came out as a breathy whisper. “War?” ¶ “The Red Rider,” the woman agreed.
    • 1833, A. W. Fenton, “To the Spirit of Byron”, in Midnight in London, and Other Poems, Penrith, page 108:
      Came, as the prophet from his lonely shore / To man foretold, a thousand years before, / When the Red Rider—minister of wrath, / Rode on his desolating, destin'd path!

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