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- noun Plural form of
britchka .
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Examples
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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
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“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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