clarence

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It was a clarence, with dark subdued-looking panels, only ornamented by a vermilion crest.

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  1. noun A four-wheeled closed carriage with seats for four passengers.

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  • GameStop is disguising a clarence sale as a huge blowout spectacular. —  Kotaku
  • It was a clarence, with dark subdued-looking panels, only ornamented by a vermilion crest. —  Henry Dunbar A Novel
  • She was therefore obliged to start on foot in company with the bull, sheep, horse and hounds, orders being given that ten miles a day, divided between morning and evening, should be the maximum march during the journey The emigrants started per coach, while our party drove up in a new clarence which I had brought from England. —  Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
  • And I know what I'll do: I'll hire the small clarence, and invite the Crumps to dinner at the 'Gar and Starter'" (this was his facetious way of calling the "Star and Garter and I'll ride by them all the way to Richmond. —  Men's Wives
  • The emigrants started per coach, while our party drove up in a new clarence which I had brought from England. —  Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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  1. After the Duke of Clarence (1765-1837), later William IV of England.

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  1. From Clarence, a proper name.
 

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