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
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
I dismissed the post chaise at the gate, and walked up quietly.
From With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
In an hour's time I was in a post chaise, and hastened by the shortest road through Northamptonshire.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby
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