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barouche
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of four-wheeled carriage, 1801, from dialectal German barutsche , from Italian baroccio "chariot," originally "two-wheeled car," from Latin birotus "two-wheeled," from bi- "two" + rotus "wheel," from rotare "go around" (see rotary ). Frenchified in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A barouche was a type of horse-drawn carriage fashionable in the 19th century. It was used mainly for travel in the summer, though it had a retractable cover for some protection from the weather. The barouche was based on an earlier style of carriage, the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context vehicles English) Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barouche \Ba*rouche"\, n. [G. barutsche, It. baroccio, biroccio, LL. barrotium, fr. L. birotus two-wheeled; bi- = bis twice + rota wheel.] A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside ...
Usage examples of barouche.
A brief altercation ensued when it transpired that Nidget would not be permitted inside, but at length he was sent off in the barouche, and the others crossed the threshold.
Hero was just deciding that it would be pleasant to go for an airing in Hyde Park in her barouche, when the first of her morning callers knocked on the door.
Whether she regretted having given him as much encouragement as lay in a rose dropped from her corsage, or whether she resented the introduction into the party of so unprepossessing a gentleman as Mr Gumley, no one could tell, but although she relented towards him from time to time, even allowing her hand to rest in his for a moment longer than was necessary when he handed her down from the barouche, she was for the most part a little pettish in her manner, and made it plain that he could do nothing to please her.
Lady Saltash had driven away in her barouche she thought that she would fill in the lagging time in this fashion.
We agreed that I would remain precisely where I am until the barouche can be set on its way.
What if her insistence upon remaining inside the barouche did make the difference between traveling onward or remaining stranded?
Assisted by her father Shanna mounted the carriage at last, and the barouche moved briskly away from the dock.
Orlan Trahern slammed his staff against the floor of the barouche with an unworded curse.
Trahern sat silent, unmoving as the barouche halted, and Shanna glanced at him with a certain amount of trepidation, not willing to break his mood.
His musings were interrupted by the arrival of the open barouche that had borne Shanna away from the docks.
Shanna and her father, riding in the barouche, ranged high in the hills checking sites.
In the barouche on the ride home, she could only question her own sanity at ever taking Ruark Beauchamp as husband.
The captain strode to the rail, leaning against it as he watched the barouche swing about and disappear around the corner of a warehouse.
Vanessa left the room and gave the order for the barouche to be brought round with a team of four.
Vanessa waited tensely in the barouche, trying to stop the harness jingling too much.