A post chaise is a fast, closed four-wheeled carriage used across Europe from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries for hired travel along post roads. Usually drawn by two or four horses, it was driven by a postilion who rode one of the horses rather than sitting on a coachman's box, and passengers changed to fresh horses at posting inns spaced along the route.
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With an enclosed body on four wheels, seating two people, and drawn by two or four horses
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