barouche
UK/bəˈɹuːʃ/
barouche noun: a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
Noun
barouche (plural barouches)
- A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
- “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160
- [A]s the state barouche, with the greys and coachman in silver wig, and solemn footmen, drew up at the old churchyard-gate, there was such a crowd assembled there as had not been seen for many a long day.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
barouche meaning in Bengali
barouche in Bengali
- barouche
- বারুশ baruś
Examples of barouche in a sentence
- […] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 5, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 3
- "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."1969, Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288:
Forms of barouche
| plural | barouches |
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Origin of barouche
From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.
Words formed from barouche
Words that rhyme with barouche
- cartouche
- douche
- louche
- ruche
- skoosh
- debouche
- baba ganoush
- babouche
- croquembouche
- doosh
- farouche
- fwoosh
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Questions about barouche
- What does barouche mean?
- Barouche means a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
- What is barouche in Bengali?
- Barouche in Bengali is বারুশ (baruś). See Barouche meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use barouche in a sentence?
- […] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.
- What part of speech is barouche?
- Barouche is a noun.
- How do you pronounce barouche?
- Barouche is pronounced /bəˈɹuːʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of barouche?
- The plural of barouche is barouches.
Words near barouche in the dictionary
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