different between couchee vs coachee

English

Etymology

French couché (“a sleeping place”), from coucher. See couch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku???e?/

Noun

couchee (plural couchees)

1. (obsolete) A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.

   • None of her sylvan subjects made their court,
     Levees and couchees passed without resort.

   • The duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full.

English

Etymology 1

coach +? -ee

Noun

coachee (plural coachees)

1. One who is coached (receives training).

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• coachy

Noun

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 […]