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post-house en · NOUN

Etymology

From post (“mail, a network of horse couriers”) + house.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of posthouse.
   alt of posthouse
   • Late on the evening of their firſt days journey they arrived at a ſmall poſt-houſe, where travellers ſeldom remain longer than while they change horſes; […] 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter XI, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 219:
   • His duty was to carry me to the next post-house, and there leave me to be carried forward by another similar conveyance. 1883, James Nasmyth, James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography, Harper & Brothers:
   • Whenever we came to a post-house, the troop of horses took to the yard instinctively, and each man seized a lassu and caught his own. 1824, Edward Hibbet, Narrative of a Journey from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Ayres in July and August, 1821:

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