post-chaise

See also: postchaise and post chaise

English

Noun

post-chaise (plural post-chaises)

1. Alternative form of post chaise
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160:

     “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.”

Verb

post-chaise (third-person singular simple present post-chaised, present participle post-chaised, simple past and past participle post-chaising)

1. To travel in a post-chaise.
   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:

     "Conceive, then, the state he will be in after post-chaising for twenty-five miles at a gallop."