Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small, open, two- or four-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse.
- n. A light, often covered cart.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small open carriage; a kind of calash.
- n. A covered cart.
Wiktionary
- n. A small, light, open one-horse carriage.
- n. A covered cart.
- n. A kind of calash.
- n. Canada, historical A sleigh drawn by horses, with seats for a driver and possibly passengers.
- n. Canada, historical A toboggan drawn by dogs, with a passenger or cargo compartment enclosed by skins or fabric, and a small platform at the rear.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small, light, open one-horse carriage.
- n. A covered cart.
- n. A kind of calash. See carryall.
Etymologies
- French carriole, from Old Provençal carriola, diminutive of carri, chariot, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon; see kers- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“These goddesses stepping into a car, vulgarly called a cariole, the mortals followed, and explored alley after alley and pavilion after pavilion.”
“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
“And so we found a tiny, functional apartment overlooking the picture-postcard port of Sauzon, rented bicycles for us and a cariole to tow Tadpole and our beach bags behind us, and set out to explore the surrounding villages, countryside and beaches.”
“She has just gone away, and the last I saw of her was her vivacious face peeping through the curtain of the cariole, and nodding a gay farewell to the family, who were shouting their adieux at the door.”
“Just before dusk, on the evening of February 4th, 1899, Marie and her mother left the city of Manila, in a cariole, drawn by a”
The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War
“He was therefore obliged to content himself with a wretched cariole, and in this equipage, about four in the morning, he reached Froidmanteau, about four leagues from Paris.”
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
“Yet when he had quitted the house his heart smote him, and when he passed Madame de Rocheval's the next day he stopped his cariole and went in just to ask if Marguerite had any message for her guardian, the Baron de Valricour, at Montreal.”
“A Gentleman going to England has for sale, a Negro-wench, with her child, about 26 years of age, who understands thoroughly every kind of house-work, particularly washing and cookery: And a stout Negro -- boy, 13 years old: Also a good horse, cariole and harness.”
“Lady Charlotte proposed to go driving with me, but she went in a sort of cariole as hard as a cart, which I could only endure for a short while.”
“I will show you my new cariole that I have made for winter, m'sieu," said Pierrot as the door closed behind them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cariole’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Just Carriages
A list of types or styles of horse-drawn carriages. Other Wordniks have made similar and more complete lists. Good for them. I prefer my own list, where you will find numerous terms not listed else...
glass coach, bachelor brougham, gharry, shigram, park coach, park drag, pony park drag, Concord coach, dress landau, Hansom cab, Victoria, body break and 57 more...
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The Barouche List: Need a Ride?
Bilby says I should have one. Even though most of these are on my other lists (the ones that weren't, I didn't really want to list).
barouche, buggy, carriage, cabriolet, randem, berlin, victoria, surrey, herdic, hansom, rockaway, cariole and 74 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Then we got all modern with our false etymologies and called them carryalls. Jan 3, 2012
chained_bear Usage on barouche. Oct 21, 2008