Definition of "diligences" [diligences]

• Plural form of diligence. (noun)

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• "Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped."
• "" The depth of that disgust was clear when he wrote to his friend William Dean Howells about " the author-cat " raking dust over every noisome revelation, " which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell . . . the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences."
• "I had only to go away; there are diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going."