coachman
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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
On July 6, 1810, Tanner gave that amount to Joseph Dougherty, a coachman for Thomas Jefferson, who used it to purchase Tanner’s freedom from her owner, Rachel Pratt, who sold Tanner that same day.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2022
Along the way the coachman suggests we’d be wise to travel incognito.
From "The Long-Lost Home" 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
It’s Tuesday, and we’re all in school mode again, like Cinderella and the mice coachmen all gone back to their ordinary form.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
