Barouche
WordNet
noun
(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 top
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From < + .
Noun
- Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
Quotations
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 3
- Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.
- 1969 Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 288
- "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."