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A horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers.

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Usage examples (36)
  • A person who rides a post-horse, a post-boy; (more generally) a courier, a swift messenger.
  • It has a wide reach, and employs electricity more freely than did the oldtime newspaper the post-horse.
  • The post-horse ridden by Durochat, and abandoned by him on the Boulevard, was found wandering about the Palais Royale.
  • Monsieur Firmiani is altogether mythical; he is like that third post-horse for which we pay though we never behold it.
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