postilion
noun
a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage.
postillion
-
a variation of
postilion.
Example Sentences
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Conrad's band plays "Hearts and Flowers" and Alexander Boss, the Newport, R. I., policeman who plays postillion on William H. Vanderbilt's coach, renders "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Pop Goes the Weasel."
From Time Magazine Archive
As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postillion ominously, as much as to say all was over.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
The postillion is cracking his whip impatiently, my friend has called me twice, and I must put up my pencil.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
The postillion blew lustily on his horn, as he drove into the court-yard, and at the door of the mansion-house appeared three pale mourners in black raiment.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Fritz Reuter
W. and I went in an open carriage, a pair of horses and postillion, and Lord Thurlow, Lord in Waiting, with us.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
