stagecoach

[steyj-kohch]

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noun

a horse-drawn coach that formerly traveled regularly over a fixed route with passengers, parcels, etc.

Origin of stagecoach

First recorded in 1630–40; stage + coach

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Examples from the Web for stagecoach

Contemporary Examples of stagecoach

After supper, you can watch Stagecoach or The Searchers or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon or Cheyenne Autumn.
Monument Valley From the Eyes of a Krazy Kat and John Ford Fan
Malcolm Jones
February 3, 2012

Historical Examples of stagecoach

I stared after the stagecoach until it was swallowed up in distance.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
Edith Eudora Kohl
This contact with the stagecoach had again brought him face to face with his buried past.
The Three Partners
Bret Harte
We may take the stagecoach, or a private coach, or tally-ho.
American Inventions and Inventors
William A. Mowry
The Governor traveled by stagecoach from Williamsburg to Germanna.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia
Dorothy M. Torpey
At the end of a fortnight he returned to Warsaw, making the trip in a stagecoach.
Stories of Great Musicians
Kathrine Lois Scobey

British Dictionary definitions for stagecoach

stagecoach

noun

a large four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle formerly used to carry passengers, mail, etc, on a regular route between towns and cities

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Word Origin and History for stagecoach

also stage-coach, 1650s, from stage (n.) in a sense of "division of a journey without stopping for rest" (c.1600) + coach (n.).