Concord coach
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Concord coach
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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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
With a harsh banging and rattling, a yellow Concord coach drew up at the gate where Miss Maria had stopped the hearse.
From The Lady of the Aroostook by Howells, William Dean
The Troy coach was preceded by a heavy coach built at Cumberland, and carrying sixteen persons, and a lighter egg-shaped vehicle made at Trenton; and it was succeeded by the famous Concord coach.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
"Not a Concord coach, and certainly not a hay-wagon, for they don't make hay up here in the mountains."
From Clover by Coolidge, Susan
The primitive box stage gave way to the oval or football type with curved top and bottom, and this was displaced in turn by the more practical Concord coach of national fame.
From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Hulbert, Archer Butler
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