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post chaise
noun
- a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
post chaise
noun
- a closed four-wheeled horse-drawn coach used as a rapid means for transporting mail and passengers in the 18th and 19th centuries
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Origin of post chaise1
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Origin of post chaise1
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Example Sentences
I only want formally to report myself before taking post-chaise to London.
At four o'clock, two days later, the post-chaise drove up to the principal hotel at Yeovil.
If they try to squeeze six people into an infernal box that only holds four, I'll take a post-chaise and bring an action.
A few hours after Mr. Vincent had read this letter he threw himself into a post-chaise, and set out for Germany.
Then we consulted about our imminent start, and I told my servant it would be better to send the post-chaise across the Seine.
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