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語源

From post +‎ house.

名詞

posthouse (plural posthouses)

1. (film, television) A company that carries out post-production.
   • 2013, Jesse Drew, A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media, page 57:

     Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look.

2. (historical) A house at a staging post: an inn with a stable where relays of horses could be changed, for stagecoaches and/or the mails.

   Synonym: posting house

   Coordinate terms: roadhouse, coaching inn

   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 157:

     At each mile there are little guardhouses, where a policeman is stationed; and there is a wooden gong, which by means of concerted signals may be made to convey information over the country with great rapidity. About every six or seven miles is the post-house, where the horses are changed as quickly as were those of the mail in the old coaching days in England.

3. (obsolete) A building for distributing mail; a post office.

Further reading

Post house (historical building) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

• “posthouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• housepost, house-tops, housetops, pot-houses, pothouses, house tops