carriole
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Quite small boys and girls manage to do a good day’s haymaking, and they can row a boat or drive a carriole before they have reached their teens.
From Peeps at Many Lands: Norway by Cooper, A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton)
To sit properly in a carriole, you should be rather round-shouldered, as its shape is not unlike half a walnut, scooped out.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.
I believe that in the season a great point is made of providing every stranger with the carriole: hundreds are so honoured.
From Norway by Jungman, Beatrix
Besides, he was quite stiff with riding in a carriole; all this useless rushing about was really monstrous folly, and White-Rose Cottage was not such a bad place.
From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis
As his carriole slipped lightly over it, Northwick had a fantastic sense of his own minuteness and remoteness.
From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean
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