What is "pillions"

Usage examples of "pillions".

They must, of course, be mounted, and must each have pillions for the carriage of the prisoners behind them.

Ned assisted the females to the pillions, and when they were seated mounted his own horse and led the way down the street.

Some of the damsels mounted on pillions behind their favorite swains, and their light-hearted laughter, mingling with the clatter of hoofs, echoed along the silent woodlands, sounding fainter and fainter until they gradually died away--and the late scene of noise and frolic was all silent and deserted.

Some of the damsels mounted on pillions behind their favorite swains, and their light-hearted laughter, mingling with the clatter of hoofs, echoed along the silent woodlands, sounding fainter and fainter, until they gradually died away, – and the late scene of noise and frolic was all silent and deserted.