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rocking horse

NOUN
child's model horse
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Set against the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, it depicts a favorite Southern activity—akin to her widely admired maple-sugaring paintings set up north—embellished with details like the tiny rocking horse on her front porch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The idea for “Split-Rocker” came to Koons when he noticed his son’s rocking horse in one corner of a room, and a rocking dinosaur in another.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025

She stacks up miniature versions of banal furnishings — a chair, a sofa, a rocking horse — glued one on top of the other.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

"His first Christmas present was a rocking horse, for his second I got him a pony, and he's never looked back."

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2023

She herself would not have minded having a rocking horse, but a rocking horse was not a good gift for a baby who could not yet sit up in the saddle.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood



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