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coachman

[kohch-muhn] / ˈkoʊtʃ mən /


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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

Son of a Slovak coachman and a Moravian cook who both served the imperial court, the young Masaryk - like Filip - was equally at home on both sides of the river.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2022

The coachman answered, “A shilling—unless you wish to make it more.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

Colonial Williamsburg has begun to honor the coachmen by naming a new carriage after one of them, with hopes that more will follow.

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

There were coachmen, storekeepers, and milkmen; later a few municipal employees and distinguished ladies made a discreet appearance, slinking along the side walls of the house to keep from being recognized.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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