Coaching innとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

coaching inn (plural coaching inns)

1. (historical) An inn (hotel) along a route used by stagecoaches, where horses could be changed, and passengers could obtain food and drink.

   Hypernyms: inn, hotel < house

   Hyponym: halfway house

   Coordinate terms: posthouse, posting house

   Near-synonym: roadhouse (often synonymous, historically)

   • 2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:

     It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.

参照

• “coaching inn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.