Concord coach

American  

noun

1. a type of sturdy 19th-century U.S. stagecoach.

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Etymology

Origin of Concord coach

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

This Concord coach is the famous Wild West stage, hauling mail and passengers over the plains and across deserts.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

The large Concord coach filled with passengers soon arrived from Denver, and owing to the severity of the storm, put up for the night.

From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by Patterson, H. DeF.

Twenty-seven hundred and sixty miles in twenty-five days, meant a fast clip for horses and a lumbering Concord coach over ungraded roads.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)

At Cinnabar Alfonso joined a merry party of tourists, who mounted a Concord coach, and the four grays were urged to a brisk pace over a smooth government road towards the great National Park.

From The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward)

All the various forms of coaches were superseded and made obsolete by the incomparable Concord coach, first built in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1827.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse