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stagecoach

[ US /ˈsteɪdʒˌkoʊtʃ/ ]
[ UK /stˈe‍ɪd‍ʒɪkˌə‍ʊt‍ʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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

How To Use stagecoach In A Sentence

  • Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
  • The gunfight takes place in the dark, as it did in Stagecoach. The Times Literary Supplement
  • About five years ago, some bright spark working for Manchester Stagecoach Buses struck upon an idea which would make the company millions in additional fare revenue.
  • Even after the stagecoach era - until the 1920s - it was the starting point for horse-drawn wagonette outings.
  • Stagecoach staff managed to stop him driving off and the police came to take him away in a van.
  • Perhaps only in a year filled with movies like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Stagecoach, Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the larkier but somewhat similar Gunga Dun, Ninotchka, of course Gone With The Wind and so many others could The Four Feathers be relatively overshadowed. Michael Giltz: DVDs: 1939 -- Still Hollywood's Greatest Year
  • A replacement Stagecoach bus arrived at the scene shortly afterwards and an unperturbed Mr Hill completed the journey with his passengers.
  • Venge, who also produces Calistoga Ranch's private-label Cabernet, speeds up the typical lengthy blending process by offering just three varietals - a Stagecoach Cabernet and Syrah as well as a Merlot from his father's Saddleback vineyard. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Beginning in 1838, the federal government transferred the mails from stagecoaches to railroads.
  • Union members are angry at proposals by Stagecoach to vary pay between different depots.
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