post chaise

Alternative forms

• post-chaise

Noun

post chaise (plural post chaises)

1. A horse-drawn carriage, closed and with four wheels, historically used to transport mail and passengers.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292, book VI:

     She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;