wagonette

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see⟳ the sepulchre”

“The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love⟳ a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last⟳ commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.”

“He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.”

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