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coaching inn en · NOUN
Meanings
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(historical) An inn (hotel) along a route used by stagecoaches, where horses could be changed, and passengers could obtain food and drink.
It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.
2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:Near-synonym: roadhouse (often synonymous, historically)
Forms
Coordinates
posting house · posthouse
Hypernyms
house · inn · hotel
Synonyms
roadhouse