postilion

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They worked and traveled most closely with our nation’s first First Family as chamber maids, postilions, cooks, waiters, laborers, seamstresses and valets.

From Washington Post

A stranger is surprised at the number of dashing equipages, with postilions and servants in liveries, furnished by this foreign city.

From Project Gutenberg

"Drive on, sir," said Miss Dinah to the postilion, "and pull up at the stone cross."

From Project Gutenberg

We entered it, and the postilions urged their animals into a mad gallop.

From Project Gutenberg

You fly through the plain; for a very slight gratuity the postilions gallop their horses like mad, which is very advisable in the Marshes.

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