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- noun Plural form of
carriole .
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Examples
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Every village can furnish sundry _carrioles_ for hire, queer-looking little conveyances, like a minute section of a tilt-cart mounted on two crazy wheels and drawn by a rat of a pony.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Alighting from our carrioles, we stood on the highest point of the mountain, and looking down the opposite side almost perpendicularly beneath us, a beautiful lake suddenly broke upon the view, the verdant banks of which, fringed with cottages, meandered for many miles along a still, romantic valley.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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Resuming our place of purgatory in the carriole, we were soon galloping on our way home; for the Swedes, like the Norwegians, drive at a tremendous pace, and it is astounding how these carrioles, so barbarously joined together, scouring over ruts and stones, do not tumble to pieces.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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They were able to give them the latest bit of gossip -- how many men were off on the herring catch; if any strangers had come through the town in their _carrioles_ on their way to the noted and beautiful Voring Foss and Skjaeggedal Foss (two water-falls of great renown); or who had the
Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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As dusk drew near there was a general handshaking, and the carrioles scurried off along the highway.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916
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Horses have become the pride of the country beaux, and the gay be-ribboned carrioles are the distraction of the village curé.
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One no longer hears the rumble of the _carrioles_ and _stolkjærres_ over the rough flags, and the silence is broken only by the jingling of the sleigh-bells.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893
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They had two double carrioles, or gigs: the road over which they passed was “steep and rugged beyond description.”
Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley Yeardley, John, 1786-1858 1860
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There are no drags to the carrioles and country carts, and were not the native horses the toughest and surest-footed little animals in the world, this sort of travel would be trying to the nerves.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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We shipped our carrioles and sent them off in the larger boat, delaying our own departure until we had fortified ourselves with a good breakfast, and laid in some hard bread and pork omelette, for the day.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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