stage

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A carriage for conveying passengers; a stage-coach.--Worcester. We sometimes use mail-stage for mail-coach, which is hardly allowable.


To pay my duty to sweet Mrs. Page,

A place was taken in the Stamford stage.

Our coachman, Dick, the shades of night to shun,

Had yok'd his horses long before the sun.--Hawkes, The Stage Coach.

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