coachee

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See also: coachée

English

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Etymology 1

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From coach +‎ -ee.

Noun

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coachee (plural coachees)

  1. One who is coached (receives training).

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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coachee (plural coachees)

  1. (slang, dated) A coachman.
  2. (historical) An American style of carriage shaped like a coach but longer and open in front.
    • 1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, page 171:
      Thence I proceeded in a coachee to Trenton, distant thirty miles from Philadelphia. On the road we passed an ordinary looking farm-house, which was pointed out to me as the birth-place of Major General Jacob Brown, []
    • 1971, Herbert Ridgeway Collins, Presidents on wheels:
      [] [a] rear door, a feature not common in a coachee. Some historians have for many years regarded this vehicle as the only authentic Washington vehicle in existence, but []