- a variation of cariole.
carriole
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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As his carriole slipped lightly over it, Northwick had a fantastic sense of his own minuteness and remoteness.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
Some Indians came in and lay down before the fire with the carriole driver.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
The other was an American girl who, making a European tour with the necessary aunts, had left them in luxury and comfort in Berlin while she made a carriole journey over Norway.
From Norway by Beatrix Jungman
To sit properly in a carriole, you should be rather round-shouldered, as its shape is not unlike half a walnut, scooped out.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
Bergen is situated some two hundred miles northwest of Christiania, and may be reached from thence by a carriole journey across the country over excellent roads, or by steamboat doubling the Naze.
From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
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