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† glass-coach Obs.
The name originally given to a coach with glass windows, as distinguished from those which were unglazed (cf. e.g. curtain-coach); esp. applied to a ‘private’ coach let out for hire, as distinguished from those on public stands.
1667Pepys Diary 23 Aug., Abroad to White Hall in a hackney-coach with Sir W. Pen..we were forced to leap out..Query, whether a glass-coach would have permitted us to have made the escape. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2487/4 A Glass Coach, Lin'd within with rich Figur'd Velvet..is to be sold. 1706Ibid. No. 4224/3 Three Hackney Glass Coaches..are to be sold. 1721Ibid. No. 5942/3 Gentlemen..may have a Glass-Coach or Chariot, instead of a Curtain Coach. 1831Macaulay in Trevelyan Life I. 243 At seven, the glass coach which I had ordered for myself and some of my friends came to the door. 1839Sat. Mag. Aug. Supp. 87/1 Glass-coaches are a kind of private coach kept by persons who let them out generally for the day or half-day; and they are considered a grade higher in rank than hackney-coaches. 1844J. F. Cooper M. Wallingford x, Hackney-coaches..are not admitted into the English parks. Glass-coaches are; meaning by this term..hired carriages that do not go on stands. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxxiv, Glass-coach after glass-coach deposited its burden of ladies. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. (1890) 17 When middle-class people went to the play..they performed the operation in what was called a glass coach. |