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
Our conveyance was a full sized Concord coach with six good mules to draw it.
From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by Patterson, H. DeF.
"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
Mr. Masterton started from a slight doze in the heavy, lumbering "mountain wagon" which had taken the place of the smart Concord coach that he had left at the last station.
From From Sand Hill to Pine by Harte, Bret
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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