Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, same as
post-horn , 3.
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Examples
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HONORED SIR, -- You may have forgot your old postillon Ben Dunford but I shall never forget yours and my mistresses great goodness to me when
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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Crowest spins a pretty yarn of Beethoven's acting as “postillon d'amour” by carrying love letters for a clandestinely loving couple.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903
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Watson 13.57 relates an instance of coitus performed en postillon by a man while drunk, with rupture of the urethra and fracture of the corpus spongiosum only.
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Watson relates an instance of coitus performed en postillon by a man while drunk, with rupture of the urethra and fracture of the corpus spongiosum only.
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"With your messenger of love, your postillon d'amour, who was certainly rather uncouth and awkward for so delicate a mission."
The Coming Conquest of England August Niemann 1879
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"You look astonished, princess; it perhaps appears to you that this impassive face is little suited to the role of postillon d'amour, and yet that is my position, and I ask your highness's permission to make known my errand."
Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843
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"Then this stony smile must have but little expression to-day, for I do not come as a messenger of evil tidings; but if your royal highness will allow me to say so, as a sort of postillon d'amour."
Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843
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On the 29th November, Casanova wrote from Frankfort that a drunken postillon had upset him and in the fall he had dislocated his left shoulder, but that a good bone-setter had restored it to place.
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La Reine: Mon fils, vous m'importunez, car je sçay bien que M. le C. est fils d'un banqueroutier de Rome a [illegible] é laquai, postillon de Courier, grand joueur & pipeur, mais tout cela n'empsche pas que je ne l'aime, & qu'il ne marie ses niepces a qu'il voudra; ayant tout le bien de la France, & mon amitie.
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