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
At that time the highroad from Dolgelly to Beddgelert and Carnarvon passed the door; but the railway having now superseded the post chaise has left the place somewhat out in the cold.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
As Rogers said the morning of his departure, ‘this morning Solon, Lycurgus, Demosthenes, Archimedes, Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Chesterfield, and a great many more went away in one post chaise.’
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry
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