caroche

American  

[kuh-rohch, -rohsh] / kəˈroʊtʃ, -ˈroʊʃ /

noun

1. (in the 17th century) a luxurious or stately coach or carriage.

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caroche British  

/ kəˈrɒʃ /

noun

1. a stately ceremonial carriage used in the 16th and 17th centuries

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Etymology

Origin of caroche

1585–95; < Middle French < Italian carroccio, equivalent to carr ( o ) wheeled conveyance ( car ¹ ) + -occio pejorative suffix

Example Sentences

“My mistress, the Barbary horses be all there saving ten, and the caroche is a-building in the air: as to the jewels, seeing they be Mistress Lettice’s, I leave her to reply.”

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When the caroches of the nobles had set down their owners at the banquethall, their varlets and servitors came to quaff a flagon of nut-brown ale in the 'King's Arms' gardens hard by.

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Coming on horseback, or in their caroches, knights and ladies of the highest rank were assembled in the grand saloon of Godesberg, which was splendidly illuminated to receive them.

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Sure, you might go in a waggon or a caroche!”

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“But have you beheld,” asked Winter, when these topics were exhausted, “the King’s new caroche of the German fashion, with a roof to fall asunder at his Majesty’s pleasure?”

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