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Definition of Postillions

postillion
Postilion Pos*til"ion, n. [F. postillon, It. postiglione, fr. posta post. See Post a postman.] One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. [Written also postillion.]

Meaning of Postillions from wikipedia

- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Allegro Postillions 1983: Hawthornden Prize for Allegro Postillions 1992: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature...
- free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Postillions. Definition of postillion by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia...
- name HMS Postillion, after the Postilion, the driver of a horse-drawn coach or post chaise, mounted on one of the drawing horses: HMS Postillion (1702)...
- "My postillion has been struck by lightning", "our postillion has been struck by lightning", and other variations on the same pattern, are often given...
- Postillion Rock (68°14′S 66°53′W / 68.233°S 66.883°W / -68.233; -66.883) is a small ice-free rock in the north part of Neny Fjord, lying close south...
- HMS Postillion was a reciprocating engine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper during the Second World War. She was ordered for the United States Navy as...
- postillion mounted directly on one of the drawing horses. On the grandest ceremonial occasions the coachman might escort a number of his postillions with...
- Twayne Publishers, 1986. Gaffié, Luc. Jack Kerouac: The New Picaroon. Postillion Press, 1975. Giamo, Ben. Kerouac, The Word and The Way. Southern Illinois...
- author. Starting with a first volume A Postillion Struck by Lightning (an allusion to the phrase My postillion has been struck by lightning), he wrote...
- Although most vehicles were coachman driven, others were in the care of postillions. The number of horses varied according to difficulties of the route....