post chaise

American  

noun

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

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post chaise British  

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

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Etymology

Origin of post chaise

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

A replica horse-drawn post chaise will visit the three places in Kent where Major Percy changed horses.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2015

John Richards Lapenotiere, jounced for 37 hours in a post chaise to Whitehall.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A. Mr. Marsh asked me to go and call the ostler up, and tell him to get a post chaise and four immediately.

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by Gurney, William Brodie

As the underplot is the shortest, I may as well dispose of that first.—They ascertained that this second post chaise had come from Northfleet, which is, you know, near Gravesend.

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by Gurney, William Brodie