barouche

[ buh-roosh ]

/ bəˈruʃ /

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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.

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Origin of barouche

1795–1805; <dialectal German Barutsche<Italian baroccio<Vulgar Latin *birotium, equivalent to Late Latin birot(us) two-wheeled (see bi-¹, rota¹) + -ium-ium

Words nearby barouche

barotrauma, barotropic, barotropy, Barotse, Barotseland, barouche, Barozzi, barperson, bar pin, barque, barquentine

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How to use barouche in a sentence

A grand barouche and pair dashes up to your door, probably with a ducal coronet on the panels.
Spanish Life in Town and Country|L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
The lady was seen in the barouche but once, enveloped in a voluminous yellow mantle, the hood of which was drawn over her face.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series|Mrs. Henry Wood
A mile and a half out from the city, Major Stevens met a barouche and five men mounted bearing a white flag.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
Glancing carelessly up, he saw his own blue liveries and his mother leaning back in a barouche.
Mysterious Mr. Sabin|E. Phillips Oppenheim

They had a two-horse barouche, which would seem to have been preserved out of their earlier fortunes.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine

British Dictionary definitions for barouche

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

Word Origin for barouche

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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