- a variation of cariole.
carriole
Americannoun
noun
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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
The wolf kept the centre of the river, and the carriole bounded from snow-pack to snow-pack, or shot along the level ice.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
I then asked him if he were as desirous of letting his carriole, as I was of hiring it; and he again said, "Ja!"
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
I have ordered my carriole, and am determined to make my attack this very morning like a man of courage and a soldier.
From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
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
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