| 单词 | long-coach |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong-coach long-coach n. now historical an elongated stagecoach, able to accommodate a relatively large number of passengers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach > specific type long-coach1672 telegraph coach1796 mail-gig1813 mail diligence1837 1672 Reasons for continuing Stage-coaches 3 And for the Poor, Waggon, or long Coaches, would best suite with their Purses. 1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature I. 26 The Margate Long-Coach was drawn up in the yard, and the passengers seated in it. 1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. III. iv. 59 Stage-coaches..others in form of a cylinder, are called long-coaches. 1940 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 3 119 It is possible that the design was influenced by the elongated long-coach which carried sixteen inside passengers from the Pigeon House into Dublin. 2004 B. Lawton Early Hist. Mech. Engin. I. viii. 371 Another inexpensive passenger vehicle was the caravan or long coach. < as lemmas |
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