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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

Head coachman Matthew Power said the "hairs go up on the back of your neck" on such an occasion, but it was important to stay calm and to stop the horses from getting nervous.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2023

He needs her help to get up in the air but she insists, “I am not a coachman for hire.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2019

Herring in a Fur Coat could be the title of a Soviet absurdist fable about a proletarian Cinderella who rejects the czarevitch and runs off with the rat turned coachman.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2015

Then she remembered Lord Fredrick’s words about the old coachman, as well as the coachman’s own remarks.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

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

Moments later the carriage arrived, an enormous black, shiny coach drawn by six plumed chargers, as was used on those occasions, and driven by two coachmen in livery.

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


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