subs. (old).—A stage-coach; a carriage.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1703. WARD, The London Spy, vii. p. 144. Our LEATHERN CONVENIENCY being bound in the Braces to its Good Behaviour had no more Sway than a Funeral Herse.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1782. CENTLIVRE, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, v. i. Col. F. Ah! thou wicked one. Now I consider thy face, I remember thou didst come up in the LEATHERN CONVENIENCY with me.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. LEATHER. … LEATHERN CONVENIENCY, term used by quakers for a stage coach.
1801. C. K. SHARPE, in Correspondence (1888), i. 102. I left Oxford with Stapleton in his mama’s LEATHERN CONVENIENCY.
1824. SCOTT, St. Ronan’s Well, xx. At the duly appointed hour, creaked forth the LEATHERN CONVENIENCE in which, carefully screened by the curtain from the gaze of the fry of the village, sat Nabob Touchwood, in the costume of an Indian merchant.
