coach house

noun

1. a small building, usually part of an estate or adjacent to a main house, used for housingcoaches, carriages, and other vehicles.

coach house

noun

1. a building in which a coach is kept
2. Also calledcoaching housecoaching inn history an inn along a coaching route at which horses were changed

Word History and Origins

Origin of coach house¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

Take everything out of that stable, and have a cart in the coach-house.

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Some dispute arose between their servants, about the right to a coach-house, which each party claimed as exclusively their own.

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"You go around and come into the for'ard cabin through the coach-house door," he commanded, after a little hesitation.

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At that instant the first mate came down a few steps of the forward companionway, entering through the coach-house door.

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And he noted that the girl near the coach-house door was staring at him with a great deal of interest.

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