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n. (alternative form of britchka English)
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A britzka (also spelled brichka or britska) is a type of horse-drawn carriage. It was a long, spacious carriage with four wheels, as well as a folding top over the rear seat and a rear-facing front seat. Pulled by two horses, it had a place in the front for a driver. It was constructed as to give space for reclining at night when used on a journey. Its size made it suitable for use as a 19th-century equivalent to a motor-home, as it could be adapted with all manner of conveniences (beds, dressing tables etc.) for the traveler.
The great railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel used a britzka, the '' 'Flying Coffin''' as his traveling office whilst surveying the route of the Great Western Railway. Carrying with him his: drawing board, outline plans, engineering instruments, fifty of his favorite Lopez cigars and a pull-out bed.
The term is a variant of the Polish term bryczka, a "little cart", from bryka, "cart", possibly coming into English via several ways, including German britschka and Russian brichka.
Usage examples of "britzka".
The gates creaked, but for a long time no britzka drove into the yard.
Omelko, having finished with the britzka, led out of the stable three horses not much younger than the britzka and began tying them to the majestic vehicle with a rope.
Ivan Fyodorovich and his aunt got in, one from the left side, the other from the right, and the britzka set off.
He had one once, at the edge of town, but he sold it and used the money to buy a troika of bay horses and a small britzka, in which he drove around visiting landowners.
Viscount, there will be in my courtyard this evening a good traveling britzka, with four post-horses, in which one may rest as in a bed.
And the young girl jumped into the britzka, which was admirably arranged for sleeping in, without scarcely touching the step.
I only had that britzka, those two good post-horses, and above all the passport that carries them on!
Viscount, there will be in my court-yard this evening a good travelling britzka, with four post-horses, in which one may rest as in a bed.
Having listened to him and, chiefly, to the details of the departure for Ustyevo together with some Sofya Matveevna in the same britzka, she instantly got ready and, following the still warm tracks, came rolling into Ustyevo herself.
The carters heard someone hail the two blind beggars up ahead, and saw them turn off the road and approach some gentlefolk who where lounging on a rug beside a britzka drawn up at the edge of the wood.
It was a britzka, occupied by a grey-haired gentleman of broad, square-hewn figure.
The sun rose higher and higher, silhouetting against the straight white line of the highway the dark figures of the beggars and, far ahead, the britzka that had passed them by.
The britzka went straight across the beds of petunias and flowering tobacco and halted by the house.
He seized the reins close to the bit and led the horse out of the gate, while Madame Storozhenko and the Persians clambered into the moving britzka as best they could.
This time she did not enter but had the britzka stop at the far side of the scrub-grown earth bank that marked the boundary.