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  • noun Plural form of britchka.

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Examples

  • The cabs are something inconceivable, wretched, dirty, drenched, without springs, the horse's four legs straddling, huge hoofs, gaunt spines ... the droshkies here are a clumsy parody of our britchkas.

    Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • “The ramping, incorrigible devil!” thought Chichikov to himself as at all hazards he resolved to escape from britchkas, organs, and every species of dog, however marvellously barrel-ribbed and tucked up of paw.

    Dead Souls 1842

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