A postilion or postillion is a person who guides a horse-drawn coach or post chaise while mounted on the horse or one of a pair of horses. By contrast...

centuries. The word postillion may occur in its alternative spelling postilion. Although various forms of the sentence are widely cited, the exact wording...

raised open coachman's upholstered bench-seat, but a landau could be postilion-driven, and there was usually a separate groom's seat, sprung above and...

carriage usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion, or both. A coach has doors in its sides and a front and a back seat inside...

of Edinburgh. In 1960 it was modified to enable it to be drawn using postilion-ridden horses, as an alternative to being driven by a coachman from the...

Empire, the upper classes would use a troika driven by a livery-clad postilion.[clarification needed] Decorated troikas were popular in major religious...

four passengers, it may be drawn at a walk by six or more horses with postilions, or be driven by two or more horses. The term is also used to indicate...

flexible leather hoods which drop. It is a postilion landau, drawn by six horses under the control of three postilions, with no provision for a coachman. It...

the arrival or departure of a post rider or mail coach. It was used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries. The post horn is sometimes confused with...

wheels, sat two to four persons, and was drawn by two or four horses. A postilion rode on the near-side (left, nearest the roadside) horse of a pair or...

before the rest are moved; this man is the 'courier' or 'postilion' (postillon). Once the postilion is in place, the rest may move forward. The goal of the...

Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey with three postilion riders, then eight Greys with four postilion drew the heavy four-tonne Gold State Coach back...

Crupper Horse brass Lines Saddle Terret Trace Related Coachman Footman Postilion Livery Driving Draft horse Driving club Tandem Museums and collections...

sure of return of the same horses, with a postilion as passenger. Unless a return hire was anticipated a postilion of a spent team was responsible for returning...

work on the philately of Chile since 1919. The book was reprinted by Postilion Publications in the 1990s with an errata sheet and a prologue by Álvaro...

Crupper Horse brass Lines Saddle Terret Trace Related Coachman Footman Postilion Livery Driving Draft horse Driving club Tandem Museums and collections...

horses and/or riders known as postilions or "post-boys" who might help a coachman drive coaches could be hired. A postilion might also travel on a coach...

Morocco harness. Originally driven by a coachman, the eight horses are now postilion-ridden in four pairs. The coach is so heavy it can only be pulled at a...

Horse artillery—rows of limbers and caissons, each pulled by teams of six horses with three postilion riders and an escort on horseback (1933, Poland)...

pairs of horses and without a driver's seat; the (typically right-handed) postilion held his whip in his right hand and thus sat on the left rear horse, and...

in 18th-century elite bourgeois households, complete with red-plumed postilion hats, the hotel also offers gourmet dining at the Regency-style Le Chantecler...

Britain, London, Longmans Green 1876 One of the horses was ridden by the postilion. John Carr, The Stranger in France, or, A tour from Devonshire to Paris...

chaskikuna) meaning "reception, acceptance, consent" and historically "postilion".: chaski  According to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the Spanish−Inca chronicler...

Farewell' Allegro poco – 'Aria of the Postilion' (Aria di postiglione) 'Fugue in Imitation of the Postilion's Horn' (Fuga all'imitazione della cornetta...

Horse artillery—rows of limbers and caissons, each pulled by teams of six horses with three postilion riders and an escort on horseback...

Crupper Horse brass Lines Saddle Terret Trace Related Coachman Footman Postilion Livery Driving Draft horse Driving club Tandem Museums and collections...

that was popular in Cuba in the mid-1800s. The vehicle was directed by a postilion rider. The large wheels are positioned behind the seat and are over 6...

On 4 June 1759 he was promoted to the command of the 18-gun sloop HMS Postilion. On 23 June, writing from Sheerness, he reported his having taken up the...

Crupper Horse brass Lines Saddle Terret Trace Related Coachman Footman Postilion Livery Driving Draft horse Driving club Tandem Museums and collections...

Crupper Horse brass Lines Saddle Terret Trace Related Coachman Footman Postilion Livery Driving Draft horse Driving club Tandem Museums and collections...