单词 | postal station |
释义 | > as lemmaspostal station postal station (a) a station on a post route or road (now historical); (b) a post office; (North American) spec. a subsidiary post office (cf. station n. 5f). ΚΠ 1846 On Communications between Europe & India through Egypt 58 She [sc. the French Government] cannot exclude other nations from visiting the ports that form her postal stations. 1867 Brit. Q. Rev. Apr. 449 There are between ten and eleven thousand towns and villages in the United Kingdom which contain a postal station. 1879 N.-Y. Times 28 Dec. 5/7 Certain little boxes in all the restaurants,..at the Post Office and at all the postal stations. 1902 A. H. S. Landor Across Coveted Lands (1903) II. xxvi. 262 Two farsakhs (eight miles) brought us to the British Consular Postal Station. One room was full of provisions, the other accommodated the three postal sawars (riders). 1957 Winnipeg Free Press 9 Oct. 3/7 Postal stations in Winnipeg will be closed, although the general post office will be open from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 1997 M. Rossabi in A. T. Embree & C. Gluck Asia in Western & World Hist. 60 Kublai had established postal stations twenty-five to thirty miles apart all over his territories. 2006 T. Cowen Good & Plenty ii. 53 William Faulkner worked for a time as postmaster at the University of Mississippi postal station. < as lemmas |
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