wagonette

American

[wag-uh-net] / ˌwæg əˈnɛt /

noun

a light, four-wheeled carriage, with or without a top, having a crosswise seat in front and two lengthwise seats facing each other at the back.

wagonette British

/ ˌwæɡəˈnɛt /

noun

a light four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle with two lengthwise seats facing each other behind a crosswise driver's seat

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Etymology

Origin of wagonette

First recorded in 1855–60; wagon + -ette

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wagonette

With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view.

From Time Magazine Archive

They helped Rosa into the wagonette and then climbed in after her.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill

On a Friday afternoon in the June of the year 1880, a roomy old shandrydan, midway between a trap and a wagonette, moved slowly along the Porth Neigr and Llanyglo road.

From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

It was the happiest party that occupied the wagonette on that drive to and from Mr. Hannaford's farm at Market Roding.

From The Happy Warrior by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

Break, Brake, brāk, n. a large wagonette: a carriage frame, all wheels and no body, used in breaking in horses.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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