baby carriage

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noun
  1. a conveyance similar to an infant's crib set on four wheels and meant to be pushed.

Origin of baby carriage

1
First recorded in 1865–70

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How to use baby carriage in a sentence

  • Your mother was still pushing you around in a baby-carriage then.

    The Penal Cluster | Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
  • Mrs. Maynard opened the front door just as the children approached with the baby-carriage.

    Marjorie's Busy Days | Carolyn Wells
  • We could not keep the baby-carriage in our apartment, even if we had been willing to haul it up and down a flight of stairs.

    Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport Gibbons
  • And we returned to join in the celebration, my husband pushing the baby-carriage and I with progeny hanging to both hands.

    Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport Gibbons

British Dictionary definitions for baby carriage

baby carriage

noun
  1. Also: baby buggy US and Canadian a cot-like four-wheeled carriage for a baby: British term: pram

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