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

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

Example Sentences

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droshky droshkies

So saying, he got into a droshky and continued to shout all the time to the coachman “Drive hard!”

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Presently we turn across country and come to a house; there we leave the droshky; and there also will be horses for us in readiness if we should need them—later.

From The Red Symbol by John Ironside

My belongings are put on another droshky, skilfully fitted together like an elaborate mosaic.

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

Nikolai Petrovitch walked after the droshky; Bazarov was remaining where he was....

From Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I wondered if this might be another police visitation; but it was only one of the hotel servants to say a droshky driver was below, demanding to see me.

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

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

It was terribly cold, and no droshkies were to be had.

From With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia by John Ward

And what makes me recall it now is, that it was Russian, and about a fair on the Neva, and booths and droshkies and fish-pies and so forth, with the Palaces in the back ground.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning