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coach house

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

noun

  1. a building in which a coach is kept
  2. Also calledcoaching housecoaching inn history an inn along a coaching route at which horses were changed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coach house1

First recorded in 1670–80
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Example Sentences

Take everything out of that stable, and have a cart in the coach-house.

Some dispute arose between their servants, about the right to a coach-house, which each party claimed as exclusively their own.

"You go around and come into the for'ard cabin through the coach-house door," he commanded, after a little hesitation.

At that instant the first mate came down a few steps of the forward companionway, entering through the coach-house door.

And he noted that the girl near the coach-house door was staring at him with a great deal of interest.

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