postilion

poʊˈstɪljən
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Translation of postilion from English into German

Noun

horse coachman

Rare
person seated on a lead animal, steering a carriage team
Rare
Postillon mPostillion m
  • A postilion rode the left horse and guided the pair through town.Ein Postillon ritt auf dem linken Pferd und lenkte das Gespann durch die Stadt.
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Synonyms and analogies of postilion in English

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Examples of postilion in a sentence

  • A uniformed postilion accompanied the royal carriage during the parade.

Translations of "postilion" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Noun
derPostillionnm.

They provided the necessary number of horses including the postilion at the stages.

Sie stellten an den Etappenorten die notwendige Anzahl Pferde samt Postillion.

But also the postilion knows to make himself heard.

Doch auch ein Postillion weiß sich bemerkbar zu machen.

You mentioned a geologist, a postilion, an aristocrat who got executed,

Du erwähntest einen Geologen, einen Postillion, einen quillotinierten Aristokraten,

But, who are you? -The postilion.

Wer sind Sie? - Der Postillion.

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Other translations for postilion:

  • Kutschernm.

postilion: Examples and translations in context

In the front a hunched small postilion asks a corpulent gentleman changing coaches here for a gratuity for the previous stage.

Im Vordergrund erbittet ein buckliger kleiner Postillion von einem hier umsteigenden beleibten Herrn ein Trinkgeld für die vorherige Strecke.

A postilion did not necessarily have to be able to read and write, but he had to blow the post horn.

Lesen und schreiben musste ein Postillion nicht zwingend können, wohl aber das Posthorn blasen.

Today, however, disc brakes that the rebuilt carriage is equipped with, make the difficult task easier for the postilion and the horses.

Heute allerdings erleichtern Scheibenbremsen, mit denen die nachgebaute Kutsche ausgerüstet ist, dem Postillion und den Pferden die schwierige Aufgabe.

At this moment the postilion, told earlier by Guillot to await Manon's orders, appears in the background.

In diesem Augenblick erscheint der Postillon, von welchem Guillot Manon berichtet hatte, im Hintergrunde.

Via Motto Bartola the team reaches the station Airolo in the Leventina, where passengers, postilion, conductor, and escort team (always discreetly in the background with a minibus and farriery) bid farewell with a Merenda, a Ticino afternoon snack.

Via Motto Bartola erreicht das Gespann den Bahnhof Airolo in der Leventina, wo sich Fahrgäste, Postillion, Kondukteur und Begleitmannschaft (die mit einem Kleinbus samt Hufschmiede immer diskret im Hintergrund mit auf der Strecke war) bei einer Merenda, einem tessinerischen Zvieri, verabschieden.

"Your father was the postilion, and I was the postilion's dog," said Ajola.

"Dein Vater war Postillon, und ich war Posthund", sagte Ajola.

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