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Definition of Postillions
1. postillion [n] - See also: postillion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postillions
Literary usage of Postillions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: With Reminiscences of Friends and by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"Story of the Ants.—Skepticism generated in postillions by traveling.—Bologna.—Modena.—
Contrasted character of their inhabitants.—Parma.—Piacenza. ..."
2. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... and our own wretched condition in bad roads, puny horses, ragged harness, and
incompetent postillions, all betokening his holiness' dominion. ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... and our own wretched condition in bad roads, puny horses, ragged harness, and
incompetent postillions, all betokening his holiness' dominion. ..."
4. Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings: With Extracts from a Diary of Salado by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1865)
"... postillions—Don Louis Sausse, the Impresario—Experiences in a Diligencia from
Tucuman to Cordova— Very unlike Tom Pinch's Stage-coaching from Salisbury ..."
5. Peasant Life in Germany by Anna Cummings Johnson (1858)
"THE BLACK FOREST—postillions—FARM-HOUSES FOOD WOMEN AND COWS WINDMILLS A GERMAN
YANKEE PORCELAIN STOVES A MOTHER, BUT NOT MARRIED BRAIDING STRAW CLOCKS THE ..."
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