Definition of "mail-coach" [mail-coach]

• A coach that conveys the public mails. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He utilized improved applications, but the principles of themselves were ever the same, whether in the war chariots of Achilles and Pharaoh or the mail-coach and diligence of the European traveller, the cavalry of the Huns or of Prince Rupert, the triremes and galleys of Greece and Rome or the East Indiamen and clipper ships of the last century."
• "Quincey's hyperbolical description of the English mail-coach, one cannot down the desire to place that remarkable man on the pilot of the White"
• "Once the mail-coach passed us, bound for Santa Fe, and a troop of dragoons came by from Fort Mann, which was being built at that time; for the rest, the most interesting thing was the litter of gear from trains that had passed ahead of us-it was like all the left-luggage offices in the world strewn out for hundreds of miles."