Barouche
//bæˈɹuːʃ// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
"“What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”"
- 2 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 wordnet
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More examples"“What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”"
Etymology
From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.
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