单词 | coach fare |
释义 | > as lemmascoach fare b. As a modifier, with reference to travel by coach, as in coach fare, coach hire, coach passenger, coach ride, etc.See also coach line n. 1, coach road n., coach station n., coachway n., etc. ΚΠ 1621 J. Taylor Motto sig. B8v So much for Coach-hire, so much for a whore, With Item not three half-pence to the poore. 1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 247 Three shillings coach-hire to-day. 1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 8 Dec. 1384 A common coach-passenger room. 1839 C. Dickens Let. 1 Mar. (1965) I. 515 The money for the coach-fares and road expences will be paid by you and Mitton. 1849 T. Carlyle Let. 2 Sept. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1995) XXIV. 210 Nervous system all ‘dadded about’ by Coach travel. 1884 Graphic 21 June 606/2 There was a great coach procession to Westminster Hall, with gentlemen riding on horseback between the carriages. 1976 J. Lukasiewicz Railway Game 275 Pillows were provided to coach passengers. 1989 Holiday Which? Sept. 158/1 BCC (the Bus and Coach Council) has a bonding scheme for coach holidays. 2019 K. Hudson Lowborn x. 76 On that endless coach ride down to London we stopped at some motorway services and an older man bought us a tartan travel blanket. < as lemmas |
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