barouche

Noun

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding topType of carriage, equipage
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ba·rouche′ (…), noun

Origin: G. barutsche, It. baroccio, biroccio, LL. barrotium, fr. L. birotus two-wheeled; bi- = bis twice + rota wheel.

A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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