coachee
See also: coachée
English
Alternative forms
Noun
coachee (plural coachees)
- (slang, dated) A coachman.
- (historical) An American style of carriage shaped like a coach but longer and open in front.
- 1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, page 171:
- Thence I proceeded in a coachee to Trenton, distant thirty miles from Philadelphia. On the road we passed an ordinary looking farm-house, which was pointed out to me as the birth-place of Major General Jacob Brown, […]
- 1971, Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Presidents on wheels:
- […] [a] rear door, a feature not common in a coachee. Some historians have for many years regarded this vehicle as the only authentic Washington vehicle in existence, but […]
- 1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, page 171:
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