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post house

noun

  1. a house or inn keeping post horses.



post house

noun

  1. (formerly) a house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of post house1

First recorded in 1625–35
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Example Sentences

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And we also do all the post-production at my post house in Brooklyn, and my partner edits the show.

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La Posta Vecchia means “the old post house” in Italian, and it’s a humble name for such a glamorous and historic place.

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Violators could be fined $50 a day, but county Administrator Jody Waits says the goal is to get people to post house numbers.

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“Tier two would be station groups, post houses, audio production houses, and tier three is really the individual users”—anyone from an amateur with a laptop to an independent studio owner.

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There, at all events, as soon as it had deposited the letters at the post house, the Post Office had discharged its duty.

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