Estafette (French; Spanish, estafeʹta)
.Military couriers sent express. Their duty is to deliver the dispatches consigned to them to the postillions appointed to receive them.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.