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stagecoach

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stage·coach  (stjkch)
n.
A four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle formerly used to transport mail and passengers over a regular route.
stagecoach [ˈsteɪdʒˌkəʊtʃ]
n
(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a large four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle formerly used to carry passengers, mail, etc., on a regular route between towns and cities
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Noun1.stagecoach - a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
stage
coach-and-four, four-in-hand, coach - a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
Translations
stagecoach [ˈsteɪdʒkəʊtʃ] N → diligencia f
stagecoach stage-coach [ˈsteɪdʒkəʊtʃ] n → diligence f
stage direction n → indication f scénique
stage door n → entrée f des artistes
stage fright n → trac > m
stagecoach [ˈsteɪdʒˌkəʊtʃ] n → diligenza
stagecoach [ˈsteɪdʒˌkəʊtʃ] n → diligenza


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They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.
Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary View in context
It is not meet that I should make too disparaging comparisons between humdrum travel on a railway and that royal summer flight across a continent in a stagecoach.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Everyone- the stagecoach driver, the post-house overseers, the peasants on the roads and in the villages- had a new significance for him.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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