glass coach

noun

A coach with glass in the windows, especially one hired as a private carriage.

Meanings

nounglass coach (plural glass coaches)

plural glass coaches

  1. historicalA coach with glass in the windows, especially one hired as a private carriage.

    Mr. and Mrs. Nollekens took me one Sunday morning with them in a glass-coach, to pass a day with their friend Mrs. Haycock, a very aged lady, who resided near Hampstead-heath.

    1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 47
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