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post-chaise
post-chaise, n. (ˈpəʊst-ʃeɪz) Also colloq. post-chay, -shay, po'chaise, pochay. [f. post n.2 + chaise n.] A travelling carriage, either hired from stage to stage, or drawn by horses so hired: used in the 18th and earlier half of the 19th century. In England usually having a closed body, seated for f...
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Post chaise
A post-chaise is a fast carriage for traveling post built in the 18th and early 19th centuries. A postilion rode on the near-side (left, nearest the roadside) horse of a pair or of one of the pairs attached to the post-chaise leaving passengers a
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post-chariot
post-ˈchariot [f. post n.2 + chariot n.] A chariot for travelling post; spec. a light four-wheeled carriage of the 18th and early 19th c., differing from a post-chaise in having a driver's seat in front.1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. 375 Messala..mounted her into a swift post-chariot, and with a maine p...
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Tea at Trianon: "Let Them Eat Cake" - Blogger
Marie-Antoinette never said any such thing, as I hope readers of this blog have discovered. One theory about the origins of the legend of the phrase "Let them eat cake" is that it is the misunderstanding of a passage from the memoirs of the Comte de Provence (Louis XVIII), the brother of Louis XVI.Provence and his wife escaped from Paris to Coblenz by post-chaise in June, 1791.
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Poulaphouca
The waterfall, marked as 'Poolapooka - a remarkable cataract' on Noble & Keenan's map of 1752, is depicted and described in the Post-Chaise Companion of
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pochay
po'chaise, po'chay, pochay colloq. contractions of post-chaise.1827 Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. iv, Its associations of ‘pochays’ and mail-coaches. 1871 G. Meredith H. Richmond I. 135 There was a saying in the county that to marry a Beltham you must po'chay her. Ibid. 158 ‘She's past po'chaises’,...
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Charles Walmesley
So much was this the case that during the "No Popery" riots of June 1780, a post-chaise conveying four of the rioters, and bearing the insignia of the
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chaise
▪ I. chaise, n. (ʃeɪz) Also 8 chaiz, (shazess). [a. mod.F. chaise (chaize Cotgr.), a phonetic alteration of chaire (so Pazis for Paris, etc.), established in the ordinary sense ‘chair’, whence by extension ‘sedan-chair’, and by transference a wheeled vehicle for travelling in. In this later sense al...
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Francis Hodgson
Her objection was overcome by Byron himself, who drove with Hodgson in a post-chaise from London to Oxford to plead the cause of his friend with Susanna's
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Isaac Darkin
On approaching Percival's post-chaise, Darkin, wearing a crape to hide his face, produced a gun and Percival handed over a sum of money of about 13 guineas
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Ixion
but not whereonto, for that would make an Ixion's wheel of it) he curseth his enemies, according to the bishop's habit of body, should certainly be a post-chaise
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sedan chair
sedan chair Now Hist. a. = sedan 1, 1 b.1750 Will in Payne Engl. Catholics (1889) 6 My sedan chair. 1772–84 Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 25 The ladies however use a sedan chair,..which is carried by two negroes on a pole connected with the top of the chair. 1807 Med. Jrnl. XXI. 379 To allow the patient to ...
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Frenchman's Creek (film)
Times called the film "somewhat slow in starting", but observed that the production values were suitably extravagant and invited readers to "catch a post-chaise
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post-boy
ˈpost-boy [f. post n.2 + boy n.1] 1. A boy or man who rides post; a letter-carrier.1588 Cal. Border Papers I. 320 Sum Skotes..mett with the post boay of Morpett bychanse..and tooke away his horse and pakkett. 1624 Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 527 Paid to a post boy for a letter from my Lord, vjd. 1672 R....
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Swanlinbar
The Post-Chaise Companion 1786 states- "About half a mile from Swanlinbar is the famous spa; the waters of which are excellent for scurvey, nerves, low
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