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
A great harvest waggon covered with flowers and garlands of leaves now drove up to the door, driven by Christian the coachman, who on that day acted as postillion.
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Fritz Reuter
A coach and postillion went to fetch her at the express.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst
On our return the postillion had departed without us; he left word that he expected to meet us on the road.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
My passport was all right, but here I had a new difficulty in that I had no passport for my postillion.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens
