cariole
Americannoun
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a small, open, two-wheeled vehicle.
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a covered cart.
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a light, open sleigh pulled by horses or dogs, especially one used in French Canada.
noun
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a small open two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle
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a covered cart
Etymology
Origin of cariole
1760–70; < French carriole < Old Provençal carriola, equivalent to carri carriage (< Late Latin carrium, for Latin carrus; see car 1) + -ola -ole 1
Example Sentences
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The documents which had been preparing being now nearly finished, we sent for the cariole, &c. from Fort Norman.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
Lashed to the back seat is a trunk, and seated on this, with her back to the cariole, is a full-grown "skyds"-girl, snugly bundled up in a kerchief.
From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The poor little skydskaarl was frantic with terror, and cried so lustily that I had to take him into the cariole, and put him under my legs to keep him from going into fits.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
One of these enthusiastic gentlemen was seated in a cariole, and traveled for some distance in front of me.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
The mountain is snow-capped and the St. Lawrence is frozen several feet thick, making good roads for the shaggy Canadian pony and cariole, or heavy traineau with wooden runners.
From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway
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