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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.

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

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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

Cryptic strangers turn up at Cornish inns; blackhearted villains display appropriately "bestial" passions; brave young Tristan nearly gets himself killed stopping the runaway horses of Isolde's barouche.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once Lincoln smiled at him as he ran alongside the President's open barouche.

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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