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  • noun Plural form of tilbury.

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Examples

  • Plenty of hackney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages — rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • Not knowing whether Roger would arrive in a carriage or on foot, the needlewoman from the Rue du Tourniquet looked by turns at the foot-passengers, and at the tilburies — light cabs introduced into Paris by the

    A Second Home 2007

  • Not knowing whether Roger would arrive in a carriage or on foot, the needlewoman from the Rue du Tourniquet looked by turns at the foot-passengers, and at the tilburies — light cabs introduced into Paris by the

    A Second Home 2007

  • Landaus, barouches, or tilburies, there were none in those simple days.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • Behind the carriage there rode a hundred or more noblemen and gentlemen of the west country, and then a line of gigs, tilburies, and carriages wound away down the Grinstead road as far as our eyes could follow it.

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • Behind the carriage there rode a hundred or more noblemen and gentlemen of the west country, and then a line of gigs, tilburies, and carriages wound away down the Grinstead road as far as our eyes could follow it.

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • Behind the carriage there rode a hundred or more noblemen and gentlemen of the west country, and then a line of gigs, tilburies, and carriages wound away down the Grinstead road as far as our eyes could follow it.

    Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • When the horses were in the stable there was a double line of rustic conveyances along the road: carts, cabriolets, tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every shape and age, tipping forward on their shafts or else tipping backward with the shafts up in the air.

    Original Short Stories — Volume 07 Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • When the horses were in the stable there was a double line of rustic conveyances along the road: carts, cabriolets, tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every shape and age, tipping forward on their shafts or else tipping backward with the shafts up in the air.

    Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • Plenty of hackney cabs and coaches, too; gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages -- rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement.

    American Notes 1842

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