droshky

American  

[drosh-kee] / ˈdrɒʃ ki /

noun

• droshkies
  plural

1. a light, low, four-wheeled, open vehicle used mainly in Russia, in which the passengers sit astride or sideways on a long, narrow bench.

2. any of various other carriages, used mainly in Russia.

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droshky British  

/ ˈdrɒskɪ, ˈdrɒʃkɪ /

noun

1. an open four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger carriage, formerly used in Russia

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• droshkies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of droshky

1800–10; < Russian drózhki, originally diminutive of drógi a long, bodyless wagon, plural (functioning as singular) of drogá one of the shafts joining the front and rear axles of a wagon

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Example Sentences

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The doomed man was in good spirits as the droshky put him down at the door of my house.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Allen Upward

With these thoughts Velchaninoff had taken a droshky and started off for the Smolney Monastery, where his lawyer lived.

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I saw a flash of recognition in his, but next instant the droshky, with its escort, had passed, and we were lumbering on again.

From The Red Symbol by John Ironside

On such occasions his nurse always accompanied him in a covered droshky, because the prince liked to ride out of bravado, but was most unsafe in his saddle.

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Suddenly a droshky dashed past, at a pace that appeared even swifter than the breakneck rate at which the Russian droshky driver loves to urge his horses along.

From The Red Symbol by John Ironside

In the 18903 he got the job of official photographer for Harper's Weekly, which sent him abroad, from Australia to Russia, photographing Chinese sampans and Siberian droshkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan Socialite Henry Bergh was 50 when he began to chase droshkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It was Russian," he tells Miss Barrett, "and about a fair on the Neva, and booths and droshkies and fish-pies and so forth, with the Palaces in the background."

From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden

I secure one of the many small droshkies, of which there are hundreds, and all shaky and open like the public vehicles of sunny Naples.

From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by P?ter Vay

A very curious example of his conservatism I noted in his remarks regarding the droshkies of St. Petersburg.

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

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