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post house

American  

noun

  1. a house or inn keeping post horses.


post house British  

noun

  1. (formerly) a house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of post house

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

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And we also do all the post-production at my post house in Brooklyn, and my partner edits the show.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2023

The next morning, the 5th Sept., we arrived at Radicofani or rather at an inn or post house facing Radicofani.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

But valuable as the post house system was in the early period of the country's growth, it soon had to yield to a higher class of travelling facility.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir

Mr. Ford was asking me to come with him to the post house, and looking at my feet.

From Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador by Hubbard, Mina Benson

"They breakfasted together at the post house, and something is being engineered."

From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

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