coachbuilding en · NOUN
Etymology
From coach + building.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The construction of coaches.
Some 70 or so cars are captured in photographs, and the book includes essays on such subjects as coachbuilding and engine evolution as well as biographies of auto-world figures, beginning with Karl Benz and ending with Ugo Zagato, the coachbuilder.
2007 December 16, Charles Mcewen, “Glory of Cars, Even Parking”, in New York Times: