postilion
Example Sentences
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He helped stabilize a postilion of need as a platoon designated hitter.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023
It weighs four tonnes and is pulled at walking pace by eight grey horses, with a mounted rider or postilion for each pair.
From BBC • May 4, 2023
The postilion who was riding the horse sprawled upon the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
No; that would never have done, but it would have been a big relief for the postilion, or whoever it was that had to carry Miss Clarissa's effusions to their destination.
From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.
Don't disturb yourself, monsieur," grumbled the postilion, who had now got one of his horses on its legs; "'tis nothing!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
