postilions's Usage Examples:

On the battlefield or on ceremonial occasions postilions have control a coachman cannot exert.

It was used especially by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries.

postmaster was an individual from whom horses and/or riders known as postilions or "post-boys" who might help a coachman drive coaches could be hired.

postilion landau it is drawn by six horses under the control of three postilions and has no provision for a coachman.

Smollett quarrels with innkeepers, postilions and fellow travellers, and holds many (though by no means all) foreigners.

a post chaise would be taken with its own postilions and horses.

At the next posting station the postilions would most likely return to their base with.

The coach is managed by four postilions, nine walking grooms (one of whom walks behind the coach), six footmen.

postmaster was an individual from whom horses and/or riders (known as postilions or "post-boys") could be hired.

Bengali film Postmaster (occupation), an individual who let horses, riders (postilions) and handled other business from a post house This disambiguation page.

Ardrishaig and her boat was towed by four horses, two of which were ridden by postilions in royal livery.

The coat of arms contains bugles of the postilions announcing their passage to tell bystanders to move out of the way, the.

An inn serving postilions and travellers along the road operated there from 1867 to 1876.

"hangers-on", six footmen, four pages, two Swiss guards, five coachmen, five postilions and 24 runners.

exotic portrayals of Roma people and the distinctively-dressed Romanian postilions.

In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning.

of Line, 3rd and 7th Lancers of the Line while the troopers came from postilions of the Empire, the horse team drivers employed by the Government.

He was said to have seen more kings and postilions than any man in Europe, and the whole point of Jonathan Swift's lines.

guard post along Kempt Road to offer relief and lodging to travellers and postilions.

which gives English, German, French and Italian versions of "Are the postilions insolent?" The same question is found in Baedeker's Conversationsbuch.

ducats, people of inspired pockets, most of them owners of coaches and postilions in bandit clothes, wanted to censure the rabble's taste for traveling.

Synonyms:

postillion; horseman; horseback rider; equestrian;