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单词 coach-box
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coach-boxn.

Etymology: < coach n. + box n.2 2e.From the earlier quots. it would seem that box was here originally used in the sense ‘seated compartment’, rather than applied to the receptacle under the driver's feet, as stated in the quot. from Chambers 1753 at box n.2 2e.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcoach-box.
The seat occupied by the driver of a coach.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > seat > driver's seat
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1651 J. Cleveland Poems 28 Resign thy Coach-box Twisse.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. xi. 560 They first pull'd him [the coachman] out of his Coach-box.
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband i. i. 16 Doll puked a little with riding backwards, so they hoisted her into the Coach-Box—And then her Stomach was easy.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 141 A handsome coach-box is the greatest ornament to a carriage.
1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook I. xv. 197 The guns were unstrapped from the back of the coach-box.
attributive.1705 London Gaz. No. 4177/4 A blue Furbelow Coach-Box Cloth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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