baby carriage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of baby carriage
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Marriage and a baby carriage are off the table; the journey matters, not the destination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
An open mailbox becomes the head and jaws of a dragon; the ribs of a baby carriage form its body.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
This was in Provincetown, Mass., many years ago, on the street in front of a drag club, where my wife and I were pushing a baby carriage.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
GPR equipment, in contrast, gets mounted on something that looks like a lawn mower or baby carriage, and gets rolled over the ground.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2022
It was the kind of whole certainty, however independent^ the sum of its facts, that can make walking backwards more than normally hazardous, and I bumped smack into a baby carriage.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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