Meanings
plural post-chaises
- alternativeAlternative form of post chaise.
“What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160
present singular third person post-chaised · participle present post-chaised · participle past post-chaising · past post-chaising
- To travel in a post-chaise.
"Conceive, then, the state he will be in after post-chaising for twenty-five miles at a gallop."
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19
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