curricle

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Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, and saluted mutually: on the racecourse of Vincennes or Sablons, behold in English curricle-and-four, wafted glorious among the principalities and rascalities, an English Dr. Dodd, (Adelung, Geschichte der Menschlichen Narrheit, para Dodd.)

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  1. noun A light, open, two-wheeled carriage, drawn by two horses abreast.

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  • "By that time the curricle will be ready and we can be off with the minimum of fuss Yes, sir," she had said, still flushed and agitated from her discovery of the loss of her jewels. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
  • It is just that I have never ridden in a curricle, and I feel as if I am suspended over space. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
  • There had been a blue and yellow carriage—one groom declared dogmatically that it had been blue and green—and a gentleman's curricle, and a lady who had been suffering from travel sickness. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
  • The prospect of being driven in his curricle was infinitely more attractive than walking. —  A Lady of Expectations
  • His lordship had unwisely driven out in his curricle, and he was soaked to the skin. —  A Lady of Expectations
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  1. From Latin curriculum, course, racing chariot, from currere, to run; see current.

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  1. = Italian curricolo, from Latin curriculum, a running, a race, a course, a racing chariot (in last sense diminutive of currus, a chariot), from currere, run: see current.
  2. from curricle, n.
 

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