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coachman

[kohch-muhn] / ˈkoʊtʃ mən /


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The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside, telling them: "I've come to find a princess."

From Barron's Feb. 12, 2026

He became the Babcock family’s coachman and quickly gained respect in the Greater San Diego area, founding a Prince Hall Freemasonry lodge in San Diego for Black middle-class men to congregate and discuss civil rights.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2024

“A Union of Hope,” the new exhibit in the Lower East Side museum, will include the recreated apartment of Joseph Moore, a coachman, and Rachel Moore, a housekeeper.

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2023

Head coachman Matthew Power said the "hairs go up on the back of your neck" on such an occasion, but it was important to stay calm and to stop the horses from getting nervous.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2023

The coachman stared straight ahead, but his words were directed at Penelope.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

But quickly, the coachmen took on the role of unofficial docents, recounting a much less buttoned-up version of Williamsburg’s history to the visiting public.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

She said the segregation-era coachmen essentially were interpreters - even ambassadors - for passengers and dignitaries.

From Washington Times Feb. 26, 2022

Spa, with its hotels and casinos, swarmed with coachmen and cleaners, waiters, cooks and the laundresses who organized themselves in small ateliers.

From Washington Post Jan. 31, 2019

Their name dates back to when White Russians, anticommunist partisans who fled to France during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, worked as coachmen in Paris.

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2015

Moments later the carriage arrived, an enormous black, shiny coach drawn by six plumed chargers, as was used on those occasions, and driven by two coachmen in livery.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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