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Definition of Postillion
1. Noun. Someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman).
Definition of Postillion
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of postilion) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Postillion
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postillion
Literary usage of Postillion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1860)
"Fine night," said the postillion, to begin, and was answered by a short assent.
... the postillion seized on an objec tionable word. "I ain't no victim, ..."
2. Bygones Worth Remembering by George Jacob Holyoake (1905)
"CHAPTER IX THE OLD postillion BESIDES Church Chartists and Positivist ... But the
business of this chapter is with the Old postillion, the founder of the ..."
3. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"postillion. — Growth of Rosario.—British Consul. ... The postillion then suggested
a zambo, a sort of " drover's stand," where mule-drivers stop for shelter ..."
4. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"postillion. — Growth of Rosario.—British Consul. ... The postillion then suggested
a zambo, a sort of " drover's stand," where mule-drivers stop for shelter ..."
5. English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin by William Peacock (1903)
"MARIA EDGEWORTH 1767-1849 AN IRISH postillion FROM the inn-yard came a hackney
chaise, in a most deplorably crazy state; the body mounted up to a prodigious ..."
6. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1832)
"... the Christian Name and Surname of every postillion or Driver employed with
every such Horse, the Amount of the Sum charged for the Hire or Use of every ..."
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