| 单词 | coach and four |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoach and four a. With and plus a numeral specifying the number of horses by which the coach is drawn, as in coach and four, coach and six, etc. Now historical.Cf. four adj. 2c, six adj. 2d, etc. ΚΠ 1625 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 25 All their coaches furnished with six horses, which comes altogether now in fashion.] 1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden iv. i. 49 It is no small part Of our felicity, to have that Lord send his Coach and Six to carry 'um to the Park. 1725 G. Vertue Note-bks. (1930) I. 1 A Page..at Lester House with a coach and four to convey us first to Kew. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. vi. 304 Old Nick himself in a coach and two;..the Archbishop of Canterbury on the box; St. Peter and Whitfield outriding. 1879 Examiner 23 Aug. 5/2 I shall be able to keep a coach and three. 1964 M. Kurland & C. Anderson Ten Years to Doomsday iv. 32 He described the development of transportation from the coach and four of baroque days to the faster-than-light spacecraft of the present. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Oct. (Final ed.) 9 The Greendale Oak..had a natural split that was widened..after the owner bet that he could drive a coach and six through one of his noble trees. < as lemmas |
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