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barouche
[ buh-roosh ]
noun
- a four-wheeled carriage with a high front seat outside for the driver, facing seats inside for two couples, and a calash top over the back seat.
barouche
/ bəˈruːʃ /
noun
- a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, having a retractable hood over the rear half, seats inside for two couples facing each other, and a driver's seat outside at the front
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of barouche1
C19: from German (dialect) Barutsche , from Italian baroccio , from Vulgar Latin birotium (unattested) vehicle with two wheels, from Late Latin birotus two-wheeled, from bi- 1+ rota wheel
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Example Sentences
A grand barouche and pair dashes up to your door, probably with a ducal coronet on the panels.
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The lady was seen in the barouche but once, enveloped in a voluminous yellow mantle, the hood of which was drawn over her face.
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A mile and a half out from the city, Major Stevens met a barouche and five men mounted bearing a white flag.
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Glancing carelessly up, he saw his own blue liveries and his mother leaning back in a barouche.
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They had a two-horse barouche, which would seem to have been preserved out of their earlier fortunes.
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