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Synonyms for stagecoach


Grammar : Noun
Spell : steyj-kohch
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪdʒˌkoʊtʃ



Définition of stagecoach

Origin :
  • also stage-coach, 1650s, from stage (n.) in a sense of "division of a journey without stopping for rest" (c.1600) + coach (n.).
  • As in covered wagon : noun wagon with a canvas roof
  • As in prairie schooner : noun covered wagon
Example sentences :
  • I stared after the stagecoach until it was swallowed up in distance.
  • Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
  • This contact with the stagecoach had again brought him face to face with his buried past.
  • Extract from : « The Three Partners » by Bret Harte
  • We may take the stagecoach, or a private coach, or tally-ho.
  • Extract from : « American Inventions and Inventors » by William A. Mowry
  • The Governor traveled by stagecoach from Williamsburg to Germanna.
  • Extract from : « Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia » by Dorothy M. Torpey
  • At the end of a fortnight he returned to Warsaw, making the trip in a stagecoach.
  • Extract from : « Stories of Great Musicians » by Kathrine Lois Scobey
  • It was just the driver of the stagecoach, returned to see what had become of her.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow » by Anna Katharine Green
  • And when the stagecoach came in she would stand with her apron full of horse-chestnuts, and heave 'em at the passengers.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, August 13, 1870 » by Various
  • Gone also is the stagecoach whose progress his pilgrimages often used to interrupt.
  • Extract from : « An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) » by Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
  • We shall find neither railway-train, nor steamboat, nor stagecoach, to carry us on our way.
  • Extract from : « Popular Adventure Tales » by Mayne Reid
  • The people still journeyed by stagecoach, carried tinder-boxes in place of matches, and penknives to mend their quill pens.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of To-Day » by Mary R. Parkman

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