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coach

/koʊt͡ʃ/ noun A1
  1. A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
  2. A trainer or instructor. · football coach· spelling coach
  3. The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
  4. The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section. (US) · We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.
  5. The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class. (US)

Plural coaches

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At eleven o’clock the mourning-coaches rolled into the paved court, and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré was filled with a crowd of idlers, equally pleased to witness the festivities or the mourning of the rich, and who rush with the same avidity to a funeral procession as to the marriage of a duchess.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1024 · C1
THE coach is at the door at last;
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 12 · C1
“I had much rather go in the coach.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 33 · B2
Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the pleasure of hearing, as they entered the drawing-room, that Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 83 · B2

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