Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A four-wheeled carriage with a collapsible top, two double seats inside opposite each other, and a box seat outside in front for the driver.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large four-wheeled carriage with a falling or folding top over the back seat, and the seats arranged as in a coach.
Wiktionary
- n. Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Etymologies
- German Barutsche, from Italian biroccio, from Vulgar Latin *birotium, from Late Latin birotus, two-wheeled : Latin bi-, bi-; see dwo- in Indo-European roots + Latin rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Fastened up behind the barouche was a hamper of spacious dimensions — one of those hampers which always awakens in a contemplative mind associations connected with cold fowls, tongues, and bottles of wine — and on the box sat a fat and red – faced boy, in”
“My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris — two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance.”
“Pitched under the shade of some wide-spreading mangoes are a variety of tents of all sizes, from the handsome and spacious marquee to the snug sleeping tent; near them are picqueted a number of fine-looking Arab horses in prime condition, while the large barouche, which is standing close by, might have just emerged from a coach-house in a London mews; a few servants are loitering about, and give life to this otherwise tranquil scene.”
“Now, what still more interested him was the fact that, on the panel of the barouche were the arms of the family now in possession of the estate of Smithell's; so that the young lady, his new acquaintance, or the young lady, her seeming friend, one or the other, was the sister of the present owner of that estate.”
Sketches and Studies
“Now, what still more interested him was the fact that, on the panel of the barouche were the arms of the family now in possession of the estate of”
“My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris -- two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance.”
“Yet, at the very same time, it has already appeared from your argument that twelve hundred thousand will command only one barouche; that is, a barouche will at one and the same time be worth twelve hundred thousand besoms, and worth only one fourth part of that quantity.”
“Fastened up behind the barouche was a hamper of spacious dimensions -- one of those hampers which always awakens in a contemplative mind associations connected with cold fowls, tongues, and bottles of wine -- and on the box sat a fat and red-faced boy, in a state of somnolency, whom no speculative observer could have regarded for an instant without setting down as the official dispenser of the contents of the before-mentioned hamper, when the proper time for their consumption should arrive.”
“You must come, Vivian: so make your fellow put your worldly goods into my barouche, which is at the door; and we are to have a great party at”
“barouche," drawn by two satin-smooth, fat animals, more like tightly covered yet comfortable brown sofas than horses.”
Lists
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ruzuzu "One afternoon when I had presented myself at the door for the accustomed reading, I found a barouche, a coachman, and a pair of what used to be called 'spanking' horses waiting in the driveway."
--Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder Sep 4, 2010
chained_bear Yay! Thanks yarb and sionnach. :) Oct 22, 2008
sionnach Not to mention the sulky, the timwhisky, the dennet, the noddy, or the désobligeante. Somebody didn't pay attention to their due diligence. Oct 22, 2008
yarb Leerhsen is remiss in omitting remise. Oct 21, 2008
reesetee *yoinking furiously* Oct 21, 2008
chained_bear "And what would a smart and stylish person hitch to his buggy, barouche, or coach (not to mention his cabriolet, randem, berlin, victoria, surrey, herdic, hansom, rockaway, cariole, britzka, tilbury, chaise, phaeton, sluggy, gharry, coupé, curricle, trap, growler, gig, dos-à-dos, landau, limber, brougham, vis-à-vis, or whim)?"
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York and London: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 9 Oct 21, 2008