postilion
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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
And now came Jack Mount, riding postilion on the horses which drew the post-chaise; behind him trotted the Weasel, 497 leading out Warlock.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
She then said she was going to begin her drawing; and bid the postilion wait at some inn, till she went for him.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
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