cariole

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These goddesses stepping into a car, vulgarly called a cariole, the mortals followed, and explored alley after alley and pavilion after pavilion.

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  • What were my mother's wishes or intentions towards me, I was not informed: but I found afterwards, that she must have made arrangements to have me removed from her house, for one day a woman came to the door with a cariole, and on being admitted to see me, expressed herself in a friendly manner, spoke of the necessity of air and exercise for my health, and invited me to take a ride. —  Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
  • In coming home in the cariole, we all missed the balizes , and got completely upset and pitched into the snow. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • Among the Canadians they are in general use; they constitute the favourite wrappers of the traveller in that cold climate: they line the cariole, the carriage, and the sleigh. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • My own sled, which was called a "cariole," was one of the usual oak sleds with parchment sides and a firm back attached. —  On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians
  • They had just time to observe that this object was a pony and cariole, which had evidently fallen from the top of the cliff, when they were drenched with spray, and a mass of foam indicated the spot not three yards off, where the whole affair had disappeared beneath the waves! —  Chasing the Sun
 

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  1. French carriole, from Old Provençal carriola, diminutive of carri, chariot, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Danish kariol, from French cariole, now carriole, = Provencal carriol, masculine, corriola, f., from Italian carriuola = Spanish corriola, a small vehicle, diminutive of Italian Spanish Portuguese carro, a vehicle, car: see car. Hence by simulation English carryall.
 

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/ˈkærɪoʊl/
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