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mail-coach
ˈmail-coach [mail n.3 2.] 1. A stage-coach used primarily for the conveyance of the mail; subsequently spec. a coach employed by the Post Office for carrying parcels by road. The mail-coach system was introduced by John Palmer in 1784, and was superseded by the railway.1787 H. More Let. Walpole July...
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Mail coach
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The English Mail-Coach, an 1849 essay by the English author Thomas De Quincey.
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Mail Coach Inn
Mail Coach Inn is a heritage-listed former inn and residence at 24 Jellore Street, Berrima, Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1833 to 1841. It is also known as the Royal Mail Coach Inn. It traded in recent times as a now-closed bed and breakfast known as the Coach an...
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Equestrian at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Mail coach
The four-in-hand "mail coach" driving was an equestrian event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. There were 31 entrants listed for the event; all 28 of them are known by name (three entered twice each). The event was won by Georges Nagelmackers (one of the competitors who entered twice) of Belgium. Silver...
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post-coach
post-coach (ˈpəʊstkəʊtʃ) [f. post n.2 + coach n.] A stage-coach used for carrying mails, a mail-coach; a stage-coach generally.1673 Lauderdale Papers (Camden) 69 The D. Hamilton and the E. of Tweedale..goe in coch to Belford, from thence on horsback to York, and from thence by the post-coch to Londo...
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baubling
† baubling, a. Obs. (ˈbɔːblɪŋ) [f. bauble n. or ? v. + -ing.] Trifling, contemptible, paltry.1601 Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 57 A bawbling Vessell was he Captaine of. 1849 De Quincey Mail-Coach in Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 496 But a baubling schooner.
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The English Mail-Coach
The English Mail-Coach is an essay by the English author Thomas De Quincey. De Quincey had originally intended The English Mail-Coach to be one part of the Suspiria.
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post-horn
post-horn (ˈpəʊsthɔːn) [f. post n.2 + horn n.] A horn formerly used by a postman or the guard of a mail-coach, to announce arrival; later often used on pleasure coaches.1675 Hexham Dutch Dict., Post-horen, Post-horn. 1677 Lond. Gaz. No. 1229/4 Thomas Moris a young man..with a gray Coat, and a leathe...
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Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Driving His Mail-Coach
Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Driving His Mail-Coach is a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec of his father, a great lover of horses recognisable
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corymb
corymb (ˈkɒrɪmb) Formerly in L. form corymbus, pl. -i. [a. F. corymbe, ad. L. corymbus, a. Gr. κόρυµβος head, top, cluster of fruit or flowers, esp. of ivy-berries; with Pliny, also the capitulum or close head of a composite flower.] 1. Bot. A species of inflorescence; a raceme in which the lower fl...
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James Lackington
Lackington named the store 'Temple of the Muses' and was said to have been large enough "that a mail-coach and four were driven round the counters at its
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cany
cany, a. (ˈkeɪnɪ) [f. cane n. + -y.] 1. Made or consisting of cane.1667 Milton P.L. iii. 439 Where Chineses drive With Sails and Wind their canie Waggons light. 1738 Glover Leonidas iv. (R.) Scimitars..and cany bows. 1849 De Quincey Mail-coach IV. 343 The little cany carriage. 2. ‘Full of canes’ (J....
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Mark Hunter (civil servant)
Barrow) De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars and The English Mail-Coach
De quaint's Opium Eater
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Aye Kyaw, The Voice of Young
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Ballyjamesduff
The town is situated on the old mail-coach road from Virginia to Cavan.The parish was created in 1831, by disuniting nine townlands from the parish of
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1849 in the United Kingdom
Thomas De Quincey's essay The English Mail-Coach (in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, October–December).
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