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karozzin

Syllables: ka·roz·zin/kəˈɹɒtsɪn/US/kəˈɹɑtsɪn/

karozzin noun: a type of traditional carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses.

karozzin: a type of traditional carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses
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Noun

karozzin (plural karozzins or karozzini)

  1. (Malta) A type of traditional carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses.
    • The horse cab (karrozzin) has not yet been driven off the street by the motor-car, and provides a pleasant mode of making short journeys; [...]1937, Great Britain and the East, volume 49, London: Great Britain and the East, Limited, →OCLC, page 985, column 1
    • Characteristic of the island is the horse-drawn karrozzin—unfortunately rapidly disappearing—but which you will still see in many places around Valletta, [...]1963, Harold Rose, Your Guide to Malta, London: Alvin Redman, →OCLC, page 77

Examples of karozzin in a sentence

  • The Maltese horse-drawn cab – the karozzin – was introduced in 1856 and is still a familiar sight in Valletta.1969, Bryan Balls, Traveller’s Guide to Malta: A Concise Guide to the Mediterranean Islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, Valletta, Malta...
  • When Valletta's breathless heat became intolerable, the family would load all their furniture onto carts and, with their two maids, climb into two horse-drawn karozzin.2000, Aline P’nina Tayar, “A View from the Balcony”, in How Shall We Sing?: A Mediterranean Journey Through a Jewish Family, Sydney...
  • In the face of stiff competition from the trams, the karozzini or gharries go on strike and assemble on the glacis outside Portes Des Bombes.2004, Joseph Binnici, Michael Cassar, A Chronicle of Twentieth Century Malta, Malta: Book Distributors Limited, →ISBN, page 28:
  • He listened to the bells of horse-drawn karozzins.2019, Tim Pears, chapter 1, in The Redeemed (The West Country Trilogy; 3), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (The Battle 1916):

Forms of karozzin

pluralkarozzins
pluralkarozzini
alternative formcarozzi
alternative formcarrozzi
alternative formkarrozin
alternative formkarrozzin

Origin of karozzin

Borrowed from Maltese karozzin, karrozzin, from Italian carrozza (“horse-drawn or railroad carriage”), from carro (“means of transport for carrying goods”) (from Latin carrus (“wagon; four-wheeled baggage cart”), or from carruca (“(obsolete) carriage; coach”) (from Latin carrūca (“carriage; coach; chariot”)).

Questions about karozzin

What does karozzin mean?
Karozzin means a type of traditional carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses.
How do you use karozzin in a sentence?
The Maltese horse-drawn cab – the karozzin – was introduced in 1856 and is still a familiar sight in Valletta.
What part of speech is karozzin?
Karozzin is a noun.
How do you pronounce karozzin?
Karozzin is pronounced /kəˈɹɒtsɪn/ (UK).
What is the plural of karozzin?
The plural of karozzin is karozzins.

Words near karozzin in the dictionary

  1. kaross
  2. karosses
  3. karotype
  4. Karow
  5. Karows
  6. karozzin
  7. karozzini
  8. karozzins
  9. Karp
  10. Karp reduction
  11. Karp reductions

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