Meaning of barouche | Babel Free

Definitions

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.

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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.””

“[A]s the state barouche, with the greys and coachman in silver wig, and solemn footmen, drew up at the old churchyard-gate, there was such a crowd assembled there as had not been seen for many a long day.”

“[…] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw⟳ them, with great concern⟳, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.”

“Day was drooping on a fine evening in March⟳ as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open⟳ highway.”

“"Of course I was eager to put⟳ her affairs in order⟳," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay⟳ for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."”

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