Wagonette

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.

    "The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him."

Synonyms

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carriage

Example

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"The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart’s-tongue ferns."

Etymology

From wagon + -ette.

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