tarantas
- a variation of tarantass.
Example Sentences
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But he himself has travelled over the greater part of the route in the simple Russian tarantas.
From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Vay, P?ter
From Orel there was no malle-poste in which they could continue their journey, and they were obliged to hire a tarantas, or posting-carriage, a very inferior kind of conveyance.
From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John
The carriages supplied were tarantas, or large post-chaises, drawn by six horses, and telagas, or four-wheeled waggons.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
The body of our tarantas, made, for the sake of lightness, of woven elm withes, and varnished dark brown, was shaped not unlike a baby carriage.
From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Around its station I saw an enormous encampment of small Russian tarantas, or cars, heavily laden with piles of sacks.
From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Vay, P?ter
