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noun
(formerly) a road with stations for furnishing horses for postriders, mail coaches, or travelers.
a road or route over which mail is carried.
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Origin of post road
First recorded in 1650–60
Words nearby post road
post-racial,
post-Reformation,
postremogeniture,
post-Revolutionary,
postrider,
post road,
post-rock,
postrorse,
postscript,
postseason,
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How to use post road in a sentence
Who among Scalise's constituents could possibly care if he supported naming a post office for a black judge who died in 1988?
So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.
Her post-crown fame, though, only further begs the question: Why has there not been another Jewish Miss America since 1945?
As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.
Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression.
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
She set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
British Dictionary definitions for post road
noun
a road or route over which post is carried and along which post houses were formerly sited
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