coach-and-four

[ kohch-uh n-fawr, -fohr ]

/ ˌkoʊtʃ ənˈfɔr, -ˈfoʊr /

a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.

Origin of coach-and-four

First recorded in 1880–85

So they were wed, and there were great rejoicings, and the bride and bridegroom drove away in the coach-and-four.

English Fairy Tales |Flora Annie Steel
The eldest son well remembers his father driving his coach-and-four to and fro.

General Gatacre |Beatrix Gatacre
The mother was brought from Fannet in a coach-and-four, and there was a splendid wedding.

The Irish Fairy Book |Various
In a year or two we shall have a good road between this and the port, and a coach-and-four may be running on it.

Waihoura, the Maori Girl |W.H.G. Kingston

When such a coach-and-four as this can walk through Mr Boulton's amendment, it is needless to spend time upon smaller fry.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 |Various