barouche
Americannoun
noun
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
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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
Bergman has treated each of these dilapidated vehicles as if it were the Queen's own royal barouche wheeling through the gates of Buckingham Palace.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a glittering barouche behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded the British light cruiser Devonshire.
From Time Magazine Archive
At lunch Tony suggested that he should drive Dorothy to Chatfield in the car and that his mother and sisters should go in the barouche.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
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