coachman
Americannoun
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the driver of a coach or carriage
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a fishing fly with white wings and a brown hackle
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The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside, telling them: "I've come to find a princess."
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
He became the Babcock family’s coachman and quickly gained respect in the Greater San Diego area, founding a Prince Hall Freemasonry lodge in San Diego for Black middle-class men to congregate and discuss civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Son of a Slovak coachman and a Moravian cook who both served the imperial court, the young Masaryk - like Filip - was equally at home on both sides of the river.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022
On July 6, 1810, Tanner gave that amount to Joseph Dougherty, a coachman for Thomas Jefferson, who used it to purchase Tanner’s freedom from her owner, Rachel Pratt, who sold Tanner that same day.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2022
She had been sitting on the box with the coachman.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
But quickly, the coachmen took on the role of unofficial docents, recounting a much less buttoned-up version of Williamsburg’s history to the visiting public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Colonial Williamsburg has begun to honor the coachmen by naming a new carriage after one of them, with hopes that more will follow.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
Spa, with its hotels and casinos, swarmed with coachmen and cleaners, waiters, cooks and the laundresses who organized themselves in small ateliers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2019
Their name dates back to when White Russians, anticommunist partisans who fled to France during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, worked as coachmen in Paris.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2015
There were coachmen, storekeepers, and milkmen; later a few municipal employees and distinguished ladies made a discreet appearance, slinking along the side walls of the house to keep from being recognized.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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