postillion
See also: Postillion
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]postillion (plural postillions)
- Alternative spelling of postilion
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXIII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 295:
- So saying, he ordered the postillion to the horses' heads, there to await his return.
- 1842, Nikolai Gogol, translated by D. J. Hogarth, Dead Souls[1]:
- Barouches with gleaming lamps, a couple of gendarmes posted before the doors, a babel of postillions’ cries—nothing...