postilion
11postilion — [pɒ stɪlɪən] (also postillion) noun a person who rides the leading nearside horse of a team or pair drawing a coach or carriage, when there is no coachman. Origin C16 (in the sense forerunner acting as guide to the post horse rider ): from Fr.… …
12postilion — pos·til·ion …
13postilion — pos•til•ion [[t]poʊˈstɪl yən, pɒ [/t]] n. a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage Also, esp. brit. pos•til′lion. Etymology: 1580–90; earlier postillon < MF < It postiglione …
14postilion — /pɒsˈtɪljən / (say pos tilyuhn) noun someone who rides the near horse of the leaders when four or more horses are used to draw a carriage, or who rides the near horse when only one pair is used. Also, postillion. {French postillon, from Italian… …
15postilion — n. person who rides near horse of those drawing coach etc. and acts as guide to the whole team …
16postilion — n. (also postillion) the rider on the near (left hand side) horse drawing a coach etc. when there is no coachman. Etymology: F postillon f. It. postiglione post boy f. posta POST(2) …
17postillion — Postilion Pos*til ion, n. [F. postillon, It. postiglione, fr. posta post. See {Post} a postman.] One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used.… …
18My postillion has been struck by lightning — This English etching from 1793 shows a postillion mounted on the front left horse My postillion has been struck by lightning , Our postillion has been struck by lightning , and other variations on the same pattern, are often given as examples of… …
19Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire — is a tenor aria in Adolphe Adam s 1836 opera Le postillon de Lonjumeau. The D5 in the final verse is the highest written note for tenors in opera. although higher notes are occasionally sung in interpolations and ornaments in bel canto operas, e …
20Jean De Bast — (Brussels, 1883 1975) is a Belgian postage stamps draughtsman and engraver.After a very complete artistic training (drawing, painting, engraving ...), he joined in 1907 the National Postage Stamps Printing house in Mechelen. Going up step by step …
