barouche

American  

[buh-roosh] / bəˈruʃ /

noun

1. 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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barouche British  

/ bəˈruːʃ /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of barouche

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

Example Sentences

Hunt eventually arrived in an open-topped barouche carriage, to great cheers, at 1.15pm.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2018

Etiquette decrees that we call it Frownton Abbey before apologising profusely and leaving in the nearest barouche.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2012

An open barouche and a pair of glossy spanking Irish steeds waited at the portico of St. Damasus Courtyard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here Queen Victoria used to drive in her barouche, smiling grimly under her swivel-topped black parasol.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wedding is to be private, and the happy pair will leave immediately in their barouche for Eastern Virginia.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

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