wagonette
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]wagonette (plural wagonettes)
- A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.
- 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 10, page 298:
- The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him.
- 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
- On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
- 1954, People's China[2], numbers 1-12, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
- He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.
Translations
[edit]a kind of carriage
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Further reading
[edit]- “wagonette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.