postilion

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White horses pulled them, they sat in semi-state landaus with black-coated, silver-buttoned postillions and gentlemen outriders.

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They greeted their fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions.

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From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold.

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Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet and gold to the royal enclosure.

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You think of a woman fainted on a day of harvest, There are postillions in the courtyard of the hospital; Afar goes by a hunter of elks, become a nurse.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various