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English
Etymology
From Old Northern French cariage from carier "to carry".
Pronunciation
Noun
Wikipedia has an article on: Carriage (horse-drawn vehicle)|
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Plural carriages |
carriage (plural carriages)
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- A railroad car drawn by a locomotive.
- (archaic) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing.
- His noble carriage concealed the heart of a knave.
- (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that [...] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
- (US) (local to New England) A shopping cart.
- (British) A baby stroller; a baby carriage.
Translations
wheeled vehicle
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Related terms
See also
- List of carriages (wheeled vehicles)
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