Meanings
post-house1
plural post-houses
- alternativeAlternative form of posthouse.
His duty was to carry me to the next post-house, and there leave me to be carried forward by another similar conveyance.
1883, James Nasmyth, James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography, Harper & Brothers2 more examples
Late on the evening of their firſt days journey they arrived at a ſmall poſt-houſe, where travellers ſeldom remain longer than while they change horſes; […]
1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter XI, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 219Whenever we came to a post-house, the troop of horses took to the yard instinctively, and each man seized a lassu and caught his own.
1824, Edward Hibbet, Narrative of a Journey from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Ayres in July and August, 1821
post-House2
- not comparableafter one's time in the House, typically the House of Representatives
In one of the highlights of […] my post-House career, we were able to work together to bring about something that was extraordinary given the political climate of the time.
2003, The Cannon Centenary Conference
Origin
post-house · noun
From post (“mail, a network of horse couriers”) + house.
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