单词 | post-chaise |
释义 | post-chaisen. Now historical. A horse-drawn, usually four-wheeled carriage (in Britain usually having a closed body, the driver or postilion riding on one of the horses) used for carrying mail and passengers, esp. in the 18th and early 19th centuries. See also po-chay n., post-chay n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hired carriage > post-chaise post-caroche1627 post-chaise1699 po-chay1813 Jack1816 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > strong, for travelling > chaise or post-chaise post-chaise1699 chaise1709 shay1717 post-chay1757 chay1764 po-chay1813 Jack1816 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 13 For quick Travelling there are a great number of Post-Chaises for a single Person: and Roullions for two Persons. 1712 London Gaz. No. 5027/5 The Earl of Strafford arrived here in a Post-Chaise. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 179 There is scarce any other way of travelling from Geneva to Italy than in post-chaises which will hold two persons, with a covering over head, and room for two trunks behind: they have but two wheels. 1791 T. Paine Rights of Man 147 Is it then to be supposed, that a few people fleeing on horse-back, or in post chaises, in a secret manner..could bring even a sufficiency for their own expences? a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 355 Who could it be?—It was certainly a postchaise. 1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 3 At the commencement of the present century..communication between the smaller towns was by post-chaises..for the wealthy. 1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. III. 306/1 The young Ruskin..accompanied his parents on their journeys, perched on the top of a box in the ‘dickey’ of a post-chaise. 1991 J. Hersey Antonietta 112 The agent set out from Paris in a post chaise. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 40 Cast-off Hunters, turn'd upon the Road for Post Chaise Service. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xiii. 41 Now the wheel we are talking of..should certainly be a post-chaise wheel. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. iv. 103 I will not readily give up my phœnix of post-chaise companions—all his actions..are those of a gentleman. 1840 C. Brown Jrnl. in J. Keats Lett. (1958) I. 441 We had been warned not to go to the Post-chaise-inn. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiii. 167 A close carriage was ordered from a roadside inn, a vehicle which had been kept there ever since the old days of post-chaise travelling. 1951 E. Wenham Old Clocks for Mod. Use vii. 47 Portable timepieces generally referred to as ‘Sedan chair clocks’ or, to give them another earlier name, ‘post-chaise clocks’. 2003 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 38 The signboard of a flying horse..served to remind people of the superior speed and stamina of the post chaise steeds supplied by the inn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † post-chaisev. Obsolete. intransitive. To travel by post-chaise, to travel about in a post-chaise. Also transitive with it. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [verb (intransitive)] > travel by post-horses post1533 to take (the) post1599 post-chaise1799 1799 T. Lewin Let. 18 Aug. in Lewin Lett. (1909) I. i. 70 It is not unlikely that after postchaising it for 650 Miles, she may rather wish to keep clear of anything like a journey for some time. 1803 T. Twining Let. 10 Dec. (1991) II. 669 I will most assuredly post chaise it. I never thought of coaching it. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xv. 146 The Colonel delighted in post-chaising—the rapid transit through the country amused him, and cheered his spirits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1699v.1799 |
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