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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coachwork
noun
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▪ Clearly he had long since trained himself to tune out all awareness of boys unless they menaced his engine or coachwork.
▪ Everything is of top quality-the engine, the coachwork and the interior all fill you with confidence.
▪ Isobel ran from one to another, touching the gleaming coachwork, the glittering chrome.
▪ It took 19 litres of paint and cellulose for the coachwork, which matched the original perfectly.
▪ Lime was particularly good for coppicing and its timber prized for turning, furniture making and much used in coachwork.
▪ The coachwork by the famous firm of Thrupp and Maberly matched the dark green and black livery.
▪ The Daimler limousine motor car with coachwork by Barker & Co.
Wiktionary
coachwork

n. The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).

Usage examples of "coachwork".

Liddon Bross was not one of his own multitudinous manufacture but, as Reggie expected, a big Rolls furnished forth with luscious coachwork.

The heavy machine-guns were loaded and cocked, each served by a picked man, and eight others dressed in looted uniforms rode up on the coachwork in plain view, while the remainder crouched with Craig under the canvas canopy.

For coachwork, a boatlike body, blunt at both ends, hung between the four gigantic wheels.

A Concorde-Napier six-wheeler with hand-assembled coachwork and polished brass trim stood beside a Fragg Crusher with multiple treads and animal pelts hanging from its mast and roll bars.

The coachwork is painted a deep multicolored silver, and the fenders and running boards are painted black.

She aimed the mascot on the bonnet between the white markers, roared through the gap in the fence at forty miles an hour, and felt a loose strand of barbed wire scrape down the side of the coachwork.

The wind and the snow whistled icily through a hundred cracks in ill-made doors and windows, the wooden coachwork and seats creaked and protested like a ship working in a heavy seaway, but the ancient train battered on steadily through the white blindness of that late afternoon in mid-winter, sometimes slowing down unexpectedly on a straight stretch of track, at other times increasing speed round seemingly dangerous curves: the driver, one hand almost constantly on the steam whistle that Whispered and died to a muffled extinction only a hundred yards away in the driving snow, was a man, obviously, with complete confidence in himself, the capacities of his train and his knowledge of the track ahead.

Sandecker lingered by a majestic 1921 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost with coachwork by Park-Ward and a massive red 1925 Isotta-Fraschini with a torpedo body by Sala.