post chaise


noun
  1. a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Origin of post chaise

1
First recorded in 1705–15

Words Nearby post chaise

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How to use post chaise in a sentence

  • I only want formally to report myself before taking post-chaise to London.

    A Roving Commission | G. A. Henty
  • At four o'clock, two days later, the post-chaise drove up to the principal hotel at Yeovil.

    A Roving Commission | G. A. Henty
  • If they try to squeeze six people into an infernal box that only holds four, I'll take a post-chaise and bring an action.

    The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens
  • A few hours after Mr. Vincent had read this letter he threw himself into a post-chaise, and set out for Germany.

  • Then we consulted about our imminent start, and I told my servant it would be better to send the post-chaise across the Seine.

    Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood

British Dictionary definitions for post chaise

post chaise

noun
  1. a closed four-wheeled horse-drawn coach used as a rapid means for transporting mail and passengers in the 18th and 19th centuries

Origin of post chaise

1
C18: from post ³ + chaise

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