post chaise
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of post chaise
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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A replica horse-drawn post chaise will visit the three places in Kent where Major Percy changed horses.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2015
On a Thursday in March 1776, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson whizzed through the English countryside in a post chaise at 10 m.p.h.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Richards Lapenotiere, jounced for 37 hours in a post chaise to Whitehall.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bill for a post chaise which has come down from the year 1784 gives the following description of that vehicle.
From Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
Three days later a clean-shaven, bright-cheeked, young dandy stepped into a post chaise, at midnight, and drove off to Exeter.
From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd
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