post chaise
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See also: postchaise and post-chaise
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post chaise (plural post chaises)
- A horse-drawn carriage, closed and with four wheels, historically used to transport mail and passengers.
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1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292, book VI:
- She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;
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a horse-drawn carriage, closed and with four-wheels
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