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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 ( 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The prisoner was in an open barouche, dressed in a blue coat and gilt buttons, white waistcoat, drab breeches, and white top boots, and his hair was powdered.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

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