postilion
Example Sentences
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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
He was delivered from them by their taking fright at the noise of the postilion, who, uneasy at the long delay, had come to see what had happened to the traveler.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.
The horses’ manes were covered with frost; the postilion was bundled up so heavily that he looked like an old woman.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
