Crossword-Solution: POSTILION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Postilion | n. | One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POSTILION | anagram | ILPOSTINO, LPOSITION |
We have 3 clues for the answer “POSTILION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Guide who rides a coach horse. | 1 answer |
| person riding one of a pair of horses drawing a carriage | 1 answer |
| Driver ___. | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with POSTILION (5)
Defarge got upon the box, and gave the word “To the Barrier!” The postilion cracked his whip, and they clattered away under the feeble over-swinging lamps.
Then we can practise our Spanish on the driver." "Not very well," Clay replied, "for the driver sits on the first horse, like a postilion.
Near the left-hand corner of the grove which surrounded the dingle, and about ten yards from the fireball, I perceived a chaise, with a postilion on the box, who was making efforts, apparently useless, to control his horses, which were kicking and plunging in the highest degree of excitement.
She set out walking again; but this day she was fortunate, for she was soon overtaken by a carrier’s cart which carried her to Hinckley, and by the help of a return chaise, with a drunken postilion—who frightened her by driving like Jehu the son of Nimshi, and shouting hilarious remarks at her, twisting himself backwards on his saddle—she was before night in the heart of woody Warwickshire: but still almost a hundred miles from Windsor, they told her.
Never while the brave Courier lives! Behold him jingling out of Piacenza, and staggering this way, in the tallest posting-chaise ever seen, so that he looks out of the front window as if he were peeping over a garden wall; while the postilion, concentrated essence of all the shabbiness of Italy, pauses for a moment in his animated conversation, to touch his hat to a blunt-nosed little Virgin, hardly less shabby than himself, enshrined in a plaster Punch’s show outside the town.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).