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traveling-carriage

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large and heavy four-wheeled carriage, fitted with imperials and a rumble, and used for journeys before the introduction of railways.

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Examples

  • Aldborough; and she was conscious that her own incredulity had once already misled her when the appearance of the traveling-carriage at the door had proved even Mr. Bygrave himself to be as good as his word.

    No Name 2003

  • The hour of waiting for the traveling-carriage wore on, and the creeping night stole up the hillsides softly.

    Armadale 2003

  • Col. Pompley's in a handsome traveling-carriage, attended by her maid and footman.

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

  • Without being taken back to his cell, he was at once put into irons, the same rusty, galling ones he had worn already, and placed in a _kibitka_, or traveling-carriage, between two armed guards.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

  • 'Monsieur du Bois,' had a traveling-carriage waiting at a little house near the Porte St. Denis, where an old servitor of the family lives.

    The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

  • Then came the complicated business of stowing us all away in our capacious traveling-carriage.

    A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago 1919

  • In front of this traveling-carriage were three broughams, belonging respectively to Carlotta, who had suddenly returned to Paris, to Sorelli and, at the head of the rank, to Comte Philippe de Chagny.

    The Phantom of the Opera 1911

  • "I have even seen him get out of his traveling-carriage and stand at attention as an Eagle at the head of a regiment marched by."

    The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

  • The confusion into which Berthier's orders had thrown his carefully arranged plans infuriated him; but when he heard, as he descended from his traveling-carriage, where the enemy was, he could not believe his ears.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

  • Three days later the new Empress was handed to her traveling-carriage by the Archduke

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

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