A skilled craftsperson who designs and builds coaches or carriages, similar to how a playwright writes plays or a wheelwright makes wheels.
From 'coach' + 'wright' (an Old English word meaning maker or builder, as in cartwright). The suffix '-wright' follows the pattern of occupational surnames like wheelwright and playwright, dating back to medieval craft traditions.
A coachwright was one of the most respected craftsmen of medieval and Renaissance times—they had to understand geometry, strength of materials, and aesthetics all at once, making them engineers before engineering was even a word.
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