Brewer's: Estafette

(French; Spanish, estafeta). Military couriers sent express. Their duty is to deliver the dispatches consigned to them to the postillions appointed to receive them.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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