What is "stagers"

Usage examples of "stagers".

As for the old stagers, whom you admire so, their faces were all clogged with powder, the pores stopped up, the true texture of the skin abolished.

Most of them were old stagers, and strung away in the evening quite tranquilly, while the blacks, always smoking, rode listlessly after.

He had so few of the old stagers left, the men who knew all the angles, who had great experience.

If we have but few young statesmen, it is because the old stagers are so fond of the rattle of their harness.