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barouche

[ buh-roosh ]

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noun

a four-wheeled carriage with a high front seat outside for the driver, facing seats inside for two couples, and a calash top over the back seat.

barouche

/ bəˈruːʃ /

noun

a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, having a retractable hood over the rear half, seats inside for two couples facing each other, and a driver's seat outside at the front

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Word History and Origins

Origin of barouche¹

1795–1805; < dialectal German Barutsche < Italian baroccio < Vulgar Latin *birotium, equivalent to Late Latin birot ( us ) two-wheeled ( bi- ¹, rota ¹ ) + -ium -ium

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Word History and Origins

Origin of barouche¹

C19: from German (dialect) Barutsche , from Italian baroccio , from Vulgar Latin birotium (unattested) vehicle with two wheels, from Late Latin birotus two-wheeled, from bi- ¹+ rota wheel

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Example Sentences

A grand barouche and pair dashes up to your door, probably with a ducal coronet on the panels.

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The lady was seen in the barouche but once, enveloped in a voluminous yellow mantle, the hood of which was drawn over her face.

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A mile and a half out from the city, Major Stevens met a barouche and five men mounted bearing a white flag.

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Glancing carelessly up, he saw his own blue liveries and his mother leaning back in a barouche.

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They had a two-horse barouche, which would seem to have been preserved out of their earlier fortunes.

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