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- noun Plural form of
coachmaker .
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Examples
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Mrs. Durrant, seeing all the windows of the coachmakers in Long
Jacob's Room 2004
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There is a standing order of the police forbidding coachmakers to build them. '
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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"A shame to spend such a night in the theatre!" said Mrs. Durrant, seeing all the windows of the coachmakers in Long Acre ablaze.
Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911
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I was at half-a-dozen coachmakers 'yards seeking that carriage, examining with my own eyes, on my own legs!
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Sir John Kirkland spent a week at Fareham House, employed in choosing a team of horses, suitable alike for the road and the plough, looking out, among the coachmakers, for a second-hand travelling carriage, and eventually buying a coach of Lady Fanshawe's, which had been brought from
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A traveller of the coachmakers, Messrs Houlditch of Long Acre, embezzled or applied to his own use considerable sums of money belonging to them.
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Fairest of fair Zurich's daughters, 677. of her daughters Eve, 232. of stars, 235. Fairies 'coachmakers, 104. midwife, 104.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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[Page 87] contract, the plaintiff was Mr Thrupp, one of the coachmakers "by appointment" to your Majesty.
A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855
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Is it possible that, because we still eat and drink, because the coachmakers 'trade is flourishing, because you, labourer, have work in the Bois de Boulogne, because you, mason, earn forty sous a day at the
Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo 1843
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The coachmakers, saddlers, and horse-dealers, are also put in requisition for this epoch; and, though the exhibition is no longer comparable to what it was in former times, when a luxurious extravagance not only in dress, but in equipages, was displayed, some handsome and well-appointed carriages are still to be seen.
The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819
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