coach-built
adjective
(of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
coach-builder
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a word derived from
coach-built.
Example Sentences
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"It is nothing," I answered, with a swift glance into his eyes; "my servants have gone to seek a blacksmith, or a coach-builder."
From A Diplomatic Woman by Huan Mee
Lionel Lukin, a coach-builder in London, was the inventor of the lifeboat.
From The Lifeboat by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It was offered for sale by John Lucas, a Boston coach-builder, and had doubtless been built by him.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
Road lamps, door handles, polished silver or brass furniture, are supplied to the coach-builder by firms whose special business it is to make them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Several elderly men in the quarter used to come, among them a retired coach-builder, one Croizeau.
From A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac
