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English
Noun
post-chaise (plural post-chaises)
- Alternative form of post chaise
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T 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)
- 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."