coaching inn

English

Noun

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
    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.

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