posthouse
nounEtymology From post + house.
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Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television A company that carries out post-production.
- Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look.2013, Jesse Drew, A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media, page 57:
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Historical A house at a staging post: an inn with a stable where relays of horses could be changed, for stagecoaches or the mails.
- 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.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 157:
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Obsolete A building for distributing mail; a post office.