post-coachn.
/ˈpəʊs(t)kəʊtʃ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌkoʊtʃ/ Now historical.
= stagecoach n. 1.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > vehicle or vessel > road vehicle
post-caroche1627
post-coach1636
post calash1703
post-carriage1720
post-stage1738
mail-cart1767
Royal Mail?1780
mail coach1785
mail stage1792
mail carriage1810
post-equipage1813
post vehicle1815
mail wagon1821
post-cart1826
mail-van1909
mail truck1921
postbus1957
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach
posting carriage1556
wagon1615
post-coach1636
stagecoach1658
flying coach1669
stage1671
wagon-coach1675
stage-wagon1681
post-car1694
post-wagon1694
post calash1703
fly1708
post-carriage1720
post-stage1738
diligence1742
flying machine1764
machine1769
mail coach1785
dilly1786
mail stage1792
high-flyer1799
post-equipage1813
post vehicle1815
tally-ho coach1831
mail packeta1837
flying carriage1849
stager1852
mail-hack1909
1636 King & Queenes Entertainement Richmond 24 If you aske me how he comes, I answere after the French Post-coach, or Post-horse, though he come a foot 'tis all one.
1685 Royal Proclam. 7 Sept. in London Gaz. No. 2068/1 That they presume not to set up any Foot-Post, Horse-Post, Post or Stage-Coach.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 297 Driving a post coach and four against a single horse chaise, throwing out the driver of it, and breaking the chaise.
1789 Ann. Reg. 1787 Hist. Europe 32/1 A common travelling post coach or two, with a couple of hired chaises.
1849 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 1 33/1 A new post-coach had been set up which performed the journey to Bath in a single day.
1896 Dict. National Biogr. XLVI. 200/2 He directed the search of post-coaches in the neighbourhood of Taunton, in the hope of intercepting treasonable correspondence.
1925 Times Oct. 28 12/2 The Oxford ‘post-coach’ was the scene of many Johnsonianisms. It was therein he once conversed with ‘two very agreeable ladies from America’.
1989 E. Chisnall Bell in Tree 112 One gentleman who braved the bumps and pitfalls of the post-coach from England in 1846 was Thomas de Quincey.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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