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

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Example Sentences

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post chaise

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

Meanwhile this unexpected event, the arrival of a guest in an extra post chaise with four horses, had alarmed the whole household below.

From Herman A Novel by E. Werner

And a happy journey it was, in our own four-horse post chaise, notwithstanding the roads were muddy, and the March weather precarious.

From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

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