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coach house

American  

noun

  1. a small building, usually part of an estate or adjacent to a main house, used for housingcoaches, carriages, and other vehicles.


coach house British  

noun

  1. a building in which a coach is kept

  2. Also called: coaching house.   coaching innhistory an inn along a coaching route at which horses were changed

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Etymology

Origin of coach house

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

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Beside the main residence, the estate has a detached coach house with a home theater on the first floor and a studio apartment on the second.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022

In 1955, the young family relocated to Surrey and, in 1957, moved their factory to a 1,200-square-foot coach house in rural Kent.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Builder Neil Keveren invites me for tea in the lounge of his pretty 19th Century coach house.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2015

The authority is spending more than $6 million to move the home and the adjacent coach house.

From Chicago Tribune • Nov. 9, 2014

I don't think either of his parents have jobs, but they are so disgustingly rich that Tiny Cooper doesn't even live in the mansion; he lives in the mansion's coach house, all by himself.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan