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Posthouse

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Post´house`
n.1.A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.
2.A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
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Noun1.posthouse - an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders
post house
auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge - a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
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In the evening it rained heavily: on arriving at a posthouse we were told by the owner, that if we had not a regular passport we must pass on, for there were so many robbers he would trust no one.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
When- free from soldiers, wagons, and the filthy traces of a camp- he saw villages with peasants and peasant women, gentlemen's country houses, fields where cattle were grazing, posthouses with stationmasters asleep in them, he rejoiced as though seeing all this for the first time.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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