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ˈConcord, n.2 U.S.
[The name of the capital of New Hampshire, and of a village in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.]
1. attrib. in Concord coach or Concord wagon, a type of vehicle originally made at Concord, N.H.
1853Shasta Courier (Redding, Calif.) 12 Mar., The Proprietors of the above line..have placed upon this route their splendid stock of American Horses and elegant Concord Coaches. 1853Deseret News (Salt Lake City) 14 May 1/1 A man calling himself Wm. McClafflin hired of the subscriber, a grey horse and Concord wagon. 1860Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxiii. 399 Strings of rustic lovers in Concord wagons make pilgrimages to the shrines of learning. 1887Harper's Mag. May 871/2 Concord coaches with inviting outside seats stood about. 1903C. B. Loomis Cheerful Americans 3, I climbed into the Concord wagon. 1909C. H. Sternberg Life Fossil Hunter 144, I entered a Concord coach drawn by a team of eight horses. 1947Steamboat Pilot (Colo.) 16 Jan. 2/7, 52 ‘Concord wagons’, as the stage⁓coaches were called. 1948J. D. Rittenhouse Amer. Horse-Drawn Vehicles 47 Concord coaches..carried nine passengers inside and as many more as could cling to the roof.
b. ellipt. A Concord coach.
1898Kipling Day's Work 62 'Tain't half as interestin' ez goin' daown-taown in the Concord. 1925Mulford Cottonwood Gulch xiv. 172 Along the road came a dusty Concord,..drawn by six horses.
2. Concord grape, a variety of grape originating at Concord, Mass. Also ellipt.
1858Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. X. 217 Mr. Prince thought it a better grape than the Concord. 1864Rep. Maine Board Agric. IX. 35 Years after the introduction of the Isabella came the Diana, Concord, and some others. 1871R. Somers Southern States since War 128 The ‘Concord’ grape is almost black, of rather thick skin, but juicy and sweet. 1902Fortn. Rev. June 1007, I miss the California grapes and the Concords with their clusters of deep blue berries. 1911S. E. White Bobby Orde (1916) x. 125 The satiny ‘Concords’.., however, were better dipped in cool water. 1946S. H. Holbrook Lost Men Amer. Hist. 129 Ephraim Bull, originator of the Concord grape, America's first great contribution to horticulture. |