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postchaise

postchaise is the alternative form of post chaise.

Meaning of post chaise

Noun

post chaise (plural post chaises)

  1. (historical) An enclosed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, used to transport mail and passengers.
    • She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI

Forms of postchaise

pluralpostchaises

Questions about postchaise

What is postchaise the alternative form of?
Postchaise is the alternative form of post chaise.

Words near postchaise in the dictionary

  1. postcerebral
  2. postcervical
  3. postcesarean
  4. postcessation
  5. postchaetal
  6. postchaise
  7. postchaises
  8. postchalazal
  9. postchallenge
  10. postchaperonin
  11. postchemotherapeutic

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