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postilion's Usage Examples:

that Sir William Massingberd"s daughter tried to elope with one of his postilion riders but her father shot the man dead.

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

Act 1 The newly married postilion, or coachman, (Chapelou) and his wife (Madeleine), an innkeeper, to ensure that their.

Smollett quarrels with innkeepers, postilions and fellow travelers and holds many (though by no means all) foreigners he meets in contempt.

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

le postillon de Lonjumeau Come, friends, and listen to the story Of a postilion gay and young, Well known to all, his fame and glory Through ev"ry land.

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

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

Empire, the upper classes would use a troika driven by a livery-clad postilion.

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

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

or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses usually controlled by a coachman occasionally accompanied by a postilion but always accompanied by footmen.

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

Synonyms:

postillion, horseman, horseback rider, equestrian,