Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pleasure-vehicle, either with or without a top, holding six or more persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
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Examples
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This most uncomfortable vehicle is a kind of wagonette, with somewhat dilapidated canvas curtains, through which the wind whistled most unpleasantly, being utterly insufficient to keep out the cold.
A Winter Tour in South Africa Frederick Young
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"Further north this would not, I should think, be called a wagonette at all, but in Glebeshire there are special names for everything.
The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912
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Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation.
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My feelings towards him were far from being friendly after what I had heard of his treatment of his daughter, but I was anxious to send Perkins and the wagonette home, and the opportunity was a good one.
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Outside, beyond the low, white fence, a wagonette with a pair of cobs was waiting.
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The wagonette was paid off and ordered to return to Temple Coombe forthwith, while we started to walk to Merripit House.
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A tall man had stepped from the shadow of the porch to open the door of the wagonette.
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The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upwards through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.
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Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
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Reaching home, Christopher found at his door a horse and wagonette in charge of a man-servant in livery, who repeated what
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