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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Three days later a clean-shaven, bright-cheeked, young dandy stepped into a post chaise, at midnight, and drove off to Exeter.

From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd

English afternoons of the good old time when the dust of the post chaise was the only mark of hurry across miles of meadow land and cowslip weather.

From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)