post horn

noun

a straight or coiled copper or brass horn with no valves or slide, originally used to announce mail coaches.

Origin of post horn

First recorded in 1665–75

Words nearby post horn

post entry, post exchange, post factum, post hoc, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, post horn, post horse, post house, post meridiem, post mill, post oak

Example sentences from the Web for post horn

So he paid his bill and went, accompanied by the best wishes and blessings of the Post-horn.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 11 |Friedrich Spielhagen
For three days the postman had been buried alive, and at last, by dint of digging with his post-horn, he had got free.

Norway |Beatrix Jungman
The book opens with a "post-horn symphony," well written in the old Romantic style, but not Romantic in tendency.

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany |Georg Brandes
Suddenly the loud, quivering tones of the post-horn were heard, "Es ritten drei Reiter zum Thore hinaus."

Old Fritz and the New Era |Louise Muhlbach

Before the windows of the "Post-horn" another horn now sounded discordantly.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 11 |Friedrich Spielhagen

British Dictionary definitions for post horn

post horn

noun

a simple valveless natural horn consisting of a long tube of brass or copper, either straight or coiled; formerly often used to announce the arrival of a mailcoach

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post horn

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British Dictionary definitions for post horn

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post horn

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Origin of post horn

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