post chaise
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of post chaise
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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A replica horse-drawn post chaise will visit the three places in Kent where Major Percy changed horses.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2015
John Richards Lapenotiere, jounced for 37 hours in a post chaise to Whitehall.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a Thursday in March 1776, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson whizzed through the English countryside in a post chaise at 10 m.p.h.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Rogers said the morning of his departure, ‘this morning Solon, Lycurgus, Demosthenes, Archimedes, Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Chesterfield, and a great many more went away in one post chaise.’
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry
They had not left the house two minutes, when a thundering rap came at the door—it was Lord Elmwood in a post chaise.
From A Simple Story by Strachey, G. L.
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