Postilions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POSTILIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• POSTILION, (historical) a person who rides the near horse of those drawing a coach etc. and acts as guide to the whole team, also POSTILLION
• a person who rides the leading nearside (left-hand side) horse of a team or pair drawing a coach or carriage, especially when there is no coachman.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who rides as a guide on the near horse of one of the pairs attached to a coach or post chaise especially without a coachman

Words related to POSTILIONS

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How to use POSTILIONS in a sentence

• The distinguished guest on that occasion was the Shah of Persia, who arrived with the Marechale in a handsome open carriage, with outriders and postilions.
• The postilions were incessantly admonished to make haste.
• In a moment the horses are disabled, the postilions, the negro, and the couriers cut down.
• He had a chariot and four, with black postilions in livery, for the use of his wife, while he himself always appeared on horseback, the finest rider in Virginia.
• The carriage broke down, owing to the execrable roads, mere deep rough country lanes, and had it not been for the postilions I must have been left by the wayside.
• Touching their horses with the spur, and cracking their whips, the postilions dashed round the circular plot and stopped at the hall-door.
• Just then a carriage with postilions and ladies with luggage came clattering up the street.
• He knew very well he should find neither horses nor postilions within the lines of the army.
• They dress in a particular way, without being at all in livery or uniform, like the continental postilions, talk in a particular way, and act in a particular way.
• Even in roadside inns, where I have seen from twelve to twenty coachmen and postilions sitting down together, nothing but tea was being drunk.
• We did not get to the frontier until seven, and the French postilions broke another bolt before we got fairly rid of them, compelling us to wait an hour to have it mended.
• Here we found postilions worthy of their fine track, and, to say the truth, of great skill.
• Such are the jokes and the basis of conversation between postilions and conductors on the roofs of the coaches.
• The postilions bowed to their master as they and their horses passed him, but he seemed to neither see nor hear them.
• Under him were the five coachmen of the king, the five postilions of the king, the five grooms of the king, the twelve footmen of the king, and the four chair-bearers of the king.
• A four-horse carriage of tortoise-shell, with two postilions, a coachman in a wig, and four footmen, was in waiting.
• The postilions were young boys in coarse linen, hardy as cattle, who rode bare-back league upon league.
• Some of them may have had fine equipages and postilions, but the most of them were sure only of footmen.
• The postilions kept the horses at a good gait Southward.
• A moment later we heard the postilions cursing the horses, and then we clambered out of the upper side of the chaise, and leaped into the road.

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