post town
Britishnoun
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Lujan Grisham cordoned off for 10 days the trading post town of Gallup, where infections raced through a detox center, retirement homes and the staff at Rehoboth McKinley Hospital.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
In the result, Olney was given a Post Office of its own, being made in technical language a sub-office under Newport Pagnel, the post town.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
The day now brightened up, and nothing but sunshine and "the song of earliest birds" accompanied us to Sigharding,--the next post town.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Meanwhile their concern and admiration were for the lady destined to this post town of the crowded Tōkaidō, the stopping place of high and low, noble and riff-raff, entering Edo town.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
Gross Laufingen has seen more stirring times than at present: it was a thriving post town once, a halting-place for all the diligences.
From The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey
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