Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light carriage made of wickerwork.
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Examples
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Felice almost simultaneously trotted down the lane towards the timber-dealer, in a little basket-carriage which she sometimes drove about the estate, unaccompanied by a servant.
The Woodlanders 2006
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She has the darlingest new basket-carriage — if she only looked like anything when she rode in it.
The Titan 2004
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Godmother was driving herself — a low basket-carriage, harnessed to two buff-coloured ponies.
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Mr. Gray had brought his own dog-cart for the gentlemen; and he had provided for the ladies a comfortable basket-carriage, of which his son,
The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn J. W. Keyworth
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"Good-bye, pets," said Auntie Alice to the children the next day, as they hung about the basket-carriage and Billy, waiting to take his mistresses to the station.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur
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By another route, along which Billy and the basket-carriage had vanished, was the station; but who ever heard of any one arriving at the Happy Land by rail!
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur
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In the stable Billy, the fat pony, munched and snoozed every day and all day long, except when occasionally he was harnessed into the basket-carriage to take the aunties for a drive, or ambled into the meadow, where Strawberry and Daisy, the meek-eyed Alderney cows, browsed at will over the sweet, juicy after-grass.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur
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She has the darlingest new basket-carriage -- if she only looked like anything when she rode in it.
The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908
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Paul did not heed the little basket-carriage that drove behind the monster, in which sat Lob Levy, with his shaggy, reddish beard, and his merry, twinkling eyes; he did not heed the screaming of the carmen, and the exultation of his two little sisters, who danced like mad round the wheels.
Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892
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It was a conveyance particularly unsuited to such a season and weather, being nothing more substantial than an open basket-carriage drawn by a single horse.
A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884
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