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coach-and-four

[ kohch-uhn-fawr, -fohr ]

noun

  1. a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coach-and-four1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

That curiously historic worn-out family with its ghostly legend of the coach-and-four?

Sometime after, a coach-and-four approached; which the surviving monkey no sooner descried, than he set up a most dismal yell.

On the third day she looked out of the back-door, and saw a coach-and-four coming along the road.

The end had come; the clock had struck twelve, and her fineries were rags, her coach-and-four was a pumpkin and mice.

Even in that short drive, the idea of riding in a coach-and-four was losing some of its freshness, and deeper thoughts had come.

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