| 释义 |
‖ tarantass|ˌtarənˈtas|
Also -as.
[ad. Russ. tarantasu.]
A four-wheeled Russian travelling-carriage without springs, on a long flexible wooden chassis.
1850(title) The Tarantas, travelling impressions of Young Russia, by Count Sollogub. 1876Burnaby Khiva xxxvi. 342 The tarantass..resembled a hansom cab without the wheels,..fastened in a brewer's dray. 1882H. Landell Through Siberia I. 135 A roofless, seatless, springless, semi-cylindrical tumbril, mounted on poles which connect two wooden axle⁓trees..called by the general name of tarantass. |