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

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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

Some days after, just as evening was approaching, a post chaise was seen slowly descending the winding road which led down to the cottage.

From Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade by Kingston, William Henry Giles

A. He was very anxious for a post chaise and four.

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