post chaise

noun

1. a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

post chaise

noun

1. a closed four-wheeled horse-drawn coach used as a rapid means for transporting mail and passengers in the 18th and 19th centuries

Word History and Origins

Origin of post chaise¹

First recorded in 1705–15

Word History and Origins

Origin of post chaise¹

C18: from post ³ + chaise

Example Sentences

A replica horse-drawn post chaise will visit the three places in Kent where Major Percy changed horses.

From BBC

At that time the highroad from Dolgelly to Beddgelert and Carnarvon passed the door; but the railway having now superseded the post chaise has left the place somewhat out in the cold.

From Project Gutenberg

I didn't care to travel with them, but they are not far behind—only just far enough to keep out of the dust of my post chaise.

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In an hour's time I was in a post chaise, and hastened by the shortest road through Northamptonshire.

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And a happy journey it was, in our own four-horse post chaise, notwithstanding the roads were muddy, and the March weather precarious.

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