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sur⋅rey

  [sur-ee, suhr-ee]
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–noun, plural -reys.
a light, four-wheeled, two-seated carriage, with or without a top, for four persons.
Origin:
1890–95; after Surrey, England
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Sur⋅rey

  [sur-ee, suhr-ee]
–noun
1. Earl of (Henry Howard), 1517?–47, English poet.
2. a county in SE England, bordering S London. 1,000,700; 648 sq. mi. (1680 sq. km).
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sur·rey   (sûr'ē, sŭr'ē)   
n.   pl. sur·reys
A four-wheeled horse-drawn pleasure carriage having two or four seats.

[Short for Surrey cart, after Surrey, a county of southeast England.]
Sur·rey   (sûr'ē, sŭr'ē)   
A historical region of southeast England. Dominated by Mercia and Wessex in Anglo-Saxon times, it was overrun by the Danes in the ninth century.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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surrey 
"two-seated, four-wheeled pleasure carriage," 1895, from Surrey cart, an English pleasure cart (introduced in U.S. 1872), named for Surrey, England, where it was first made. The place name is O.E. suþrige (722), lit. "Southerly District" (relative to Middlesex).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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surrey

popular American doorless, four-wheeled carriage of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Usually two-seated (for four passengers), surreys had a variety of tops, ranging from the rigid, fringed canopy-top, popularized in the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein song "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," to parasol and extension tops

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