Usually means: Rider on horse drawing coach.
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  1. postillion: Merriam-Webster
  2. postillion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. postillion: Collins English Dictionary
  4. postillion: Vocabulary.com
  5. Postillion, postillion: Wordnik
  6. postillion: Wiktionary
  7. postillion: Dictionary.com
  8. Postillion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. postillion: Rhymezone
  10. postillion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. postillion: FreeDictionary.org
  12. postillion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. postillion: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. postillion: Encyclopedia

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  1. POSTILLION, POSTILLION, POSTILLION: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Postillion)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of postilion [A rider mounted on the near (left) leading horse who guides the team pulling a carriage.]

Similar:
postilion, postboy, posthorse, pillion, seat, pack-horse, led horse, near, leader, hitching post, more...

Opposite:
predecessor, antecedent, forerunner

Phrases:
My postillion has been struck by lightning, more...

Adjectives:
french, new, little, poor, old, second, german, chief, young, english, first

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Similar:
postilion, postboy, posthorse, pillion, seat, pack-horse, led horse, near, leader, hitching post, more...

Opposite:
predecessor, antecedent, forerunner

Phrases:
My postillion has been struck by lightning, more...

Adjectives:
french, new, little, poor, old, second, german, chief, young, english, first



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