Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A four-wheeled carriage with a collapsible top, two double seats inside opposite each other, and a box seat outside in front for the driver.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large four-wheeled carriage with a falling or folding top over the back seat, and the seats arranged as in a coach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun vehicles Four-wheeled horse-drawn
carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris — two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance.
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Fastened up behind the barouche was a hamper of spacious dimensions — one of those hampers which always awakens in a contemplative mind associations connected with cold fowls, tongues, and bottles of wine — and on the box sat a fat and red – faced boy, in
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Pitched under the shade of some wide-spreading mangoes are a variety of tents of all sizes, from the handsome and spacious marquee to the snug sleeping tent; near them are picqueted a number of fine-looking Arab horses in prime condition, while the large barouche, which is standing close by, might have just emerged from a coach-house in a London mews; a few servants are loitering about, and give life to this otherwise tranquil scene.
A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home Laurence Oliphant 1858
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Now, what still more interested him was the fact that, on the panel of the barouche were the arms of the family now in possession of the estate of Smithell's; so that the young lady, his new acquaintance, or the young lady, her seeming friend, one or the other, was the sister of the present owner of that estate.
Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852
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Now, what still more interested him was the fact that, on the panel of the barouche were the arms of the family now in possession of the estate of
Sketches and Studies Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Now, what still more interested him was the fact that, on the panel of the barouche were the arms of the family now in possession of the estate of
The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) Outlines of an English Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris -- two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance.
Letters of Two Brides Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Yet, at the very same time, it has already appeared from your argument that twelve hundred thousand will command only one barouche; that is, a barouche will at one and the same time be worth twelve hundred thousand besoms, and worth only one fourth part of that quantity.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Yet, at the very same time, it has already appeared from your argument that twelve hundred thousand will command only one barouche; that is, a barouche will at one and the same time be worth twelve hundred thousand besoms, and worth only one fourth part of that quantity.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Fastened up behind the barouche was a hamper of spacious dimensions -- one of those hampers which always awakens in a contemplative mind associations connected with cold fowls, tongues, and bottles of wine -- and on the box sat a fat and red-faced boy, in a state of somnolency, whom no speculative observer could have regarded for an instant without setting down as the official dispenser of the contents of the before-mentioned hamper, when the proper time for their consumption should arrive.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
chained_bear commented on the word barouche
"And what would a smart and stylish person hitch to his buggy, barouche, or coach (not to mention his cabriolet, randem, berlin, victoria, surrey, herdic, hansom, rockaway, cariole, britzka, tilbury, chaise, phaeton, sluggy, gharry, coupé, curricle, trap, growler, gig, dos-à-dos, landau, limber, brougham, vis-à-vis, or whim)?"
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York and London: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 9
October 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word barouche
*yoinking furiously*
October 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word barouche
Leerhsen is remiss in omitting remise.
October 22, 2008
sionnach commented on the word barouche
Not to mention the sulky, the timwhisky, the dennet, the noddy, or the désobligeante. Somebody didn't pay attention to their due diligence.
October 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word barouche
Yay! Thanks yarb and sionnach. :)
October 22, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word barouche
"One afternoon when I had presented myself at the door for the accustomed reading, I found a barouche, a coachman, and a pair of what used to be called 'spanking' horses waiting in the driveway."
--Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder
September 4, 2010
TankHughes commented on the word barouche
I learned this term from this video of comedian Paul F Tompkins as Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber doing audio commentary for the 1925 silent film version of the Phantom of the Opera. http://paulftompkins.com/post/178657191289/paul-f-tompkinss-andrew-lloyd-webbers-the
Starting around 1hour 19 minutes in this video, he doesn't know what barouche means when it comes up in the title card, so he uses it in every possibly context.
October 3, 2018