Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cart for passengers, used in the north of France.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of cariole.

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Examples

  • I like the winter carriages immensely; the open carriole is a kind of one-horse chaise, the covered one a chariot, set on a sledge to run on the ice; we have not yet had snow enough to use them, but

    The History of Emily Montague 1769

  • It was with the lie that they had eaten and drunk and talked and laughed, that they had waited for their carriole rather impatiently, and had then got into the vehicle and, sensibly subsiding, driven their three or four miles through the darkening summer night.

    The Ambassadors 2003

  • And soon a carriole passed by carrying a strange burden.

    Une Vie 2003

  • The carriole rolled down toward the road with the silent voynix trotting between its stays.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Daeman climbed down from the carriole and began walking toward the fields.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • The grazing animals were running fast — thirty or forty miles per hour Ada guessed in the seconds before the sonie carried them out of sight — but the birds were moving faster, perhaps sixty miles per hour, four times as fast as any droshky or carriole that Ada or the other three had ever ridden in.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • The voynix padded up the circular drive to the front doors of Ardis Hall, stopped in the shaft of yellow light from those doors, and set the carriole tongues down so gently that Daeman did not even feel a bump.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Daeman climbed into the conveyance, said “Fax portal” to the voynix, and sat back as the carriole hummed around the driveway, white shells crunching under the wheel.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Now, two weeks after her visit to Paris Crater, missing Hannah already but knowing that the girl must be safe in the firmary, Ada found herself lost in thought during the carriole ride over the hills to home.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • The voynix trotted effortlessly, pulling the carriole with only the gravel-hiss underped and the soft humming of ancient gyroscopes in the carriage body.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

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