Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Postillion   Listen
Postillion

noun
1.
Someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman).  Synonym: postilion.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Postillion" Quotes from Famous Books



... just passed the broad part of Turnham Green, as Frank has since told me, and were near the end of a lane which strikes into the Uxbridge road, when the postillion was stopped by one highwayman, while almost at the same instant another dashed his pistol through the side-glass into the chaise, full in Sir ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft


Words linked to "Postillion" :   horseman, equestrian, horseback rider


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com