The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vetturino \Vet`tu*ri"no\, n.; pl. Vetturini. [It.]
One who lets or drives a vettura.
A vettura.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who lets or drives a vettura. 2 A vettura.
Usage examples of "vetturino".
I was astonished, and could not understand how the bill could amount to more than the value of all the clothes I saw on the floor, so I asked the vetturino to tell me the extent of the debt.
Just then the poor vetturino came in and kissed my hand, saying that if I would go bail for the count he would let me have three months wherein to find the money.
We reached Avessa without one word being exchanged, and as the vetturino stopped there only to water his mules, we did not get out of the coach.
I guessed the bone of contention: the Frenchman had no money, and the vetturino asked in vain for his due.
It was at the beginning of October, and about that time Count Medini arrived at Florence without a penny in his pocket, and without being able to pay his vetturino, who had arrested him.
I wondered no longer when the vetturino told me that he had served them for the last six weeks, having conducted the count and the three women from Rome to Leghorn, and from Leghorn to Pisa, and from Pisa to Florence, paying for their board all the way.
I gave the poor devil of a vetturino two sequins, telling him that I should like some coffee and to start in a quarter of an hour.
All my efforts were in vain, so I called the vetturino to tell him that I wanted to start directly after dinner.
As Medini was endeavouring to staunch the blood in a basin of water, the vetturino told him that as I refused to be his surety he must go to prison.
When I arrived at Senegallia, at three stages from Ancona, my vetturino asked me, just as I was going to bed, whether I would allow him to accommodate a Jew who was going to Ancona in the chaise.
The vetturino would require an extra horse, and even then would have taken four hours.
We were five at supper, for it is usual for the vetturino to supply his travellers with their meals, unless some private agreement is made otherwise, and to sit down at table with them.
We were awoke by the vetturino who informed us, greatly to our astonishment, that we were at Monterosi.
Just then the poor vetturino came in and kissed my hand, saying that if I would go bail for the count he would let me have three months wherein to find the money.
We reached Avessa without one word being exchanged, and as the vetturino stopped there only to water his mules, we did not get out of the coach.