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‖ droshky, drosky|ˈdrɒʃkɪ, ˈdrɒskɪ|
Also droitzschka, drojeka, droshka, -ke, -ki, droska, droskcha.
[ad. Russ. drozhki, dim. of drogi waggon, hearse; properly pl. of droga perch, or ‘reach’ of a four-wheeled vehicle. So Fr. droschki, Ger. droschke.]
A kind of vehicle: orig. and prop. a Russian low four-wheeled carriage without a top, consisting of a narrow bench on which the passengers sit astride or sideways, their feet resting on bars near the ground; hence transferred to other vehicles in use elsewhere; in some German towns the name of the ordinary four-wheelers or fiacres plying for hire.
1808R. K. Porter Trav. Sk. Russ. & Swed. (1813) I. iii. 23 A sort of hireable machine..denominated a Drojeka. Ibid. II. xxviii. 20 The vehicle being a droshky, there was no other servant but the coachman. 1826Scott Jrnl. 25 June, [At Blair-Adam] We drove in the droskie and walked in the evening. 1855Englishwoman in Russia 255 They were taken home by the police in droshskies. 1872Freeman in Stephens Life (1895) II. 58 At Frankfurt..to get on the Bavarian line you have to take a droschke. 1882Strathesk Bits fr. Blinkbonny xiii. 294 He met the drosky containing Mrs. Barrie and the children.
attrib.1838J. L. Stephens Trav. Greece, etc. 71/1 The drosky boy..dressed in a long surtout..sits on the end. |