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▪ I. caˈroche, n. arch.
Forms: 6–7 carroch(e, 7 caroch(e, caroach, carioch, 9 caroche, carroch.
[a. 16th c. F. carroche, ad. It. carroccio, -ia, augmentatives of carro chariot:—L. carrus; see car. Cf. the parallel word carosse.]
The 17th c. name of a coach or chariot of a stately or luxurious kind; the representative of the modern ‘carriage’ for town use. Obs. exc. Hist.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Carrucha, a carroch, a coche. 1606Dekker Sev. Sins ii. (Arb.) 20 They harnessed the Grand Signiors Caroach. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 42 To ride in a Carroch, or hanging Coach. 1611Coryat Crudities 85 Seven or eight stately Carochs of great personages. 1614Cook Tu Quoque in Dodsley VII. 28 The keeping of a coach For country, and a carroch for London. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 213 He did in..1666 prohibit the Duke of Newcastles Footmen the wearing of black Velvet Caps whilst they attend his Caroch. 1678Butler Hud. iii. iii. 211 To mount two wheel'd Carroches. [1822Scott Nigel i, The court ladies..when visiting his shop in their caroches. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs ii, When the caroches of the nobles had set down their owners.]
b. Used to represent It. carroccio, the car of state which accompanied the army of an Italian republic and bore the standard.
1840Browning Sordello i. 263 We shut..in..all noises but The carroch's booming.
c. attrib. (trade name of a kind of tricycle).
1885Bazaar 30 Mar. 1274/3, 46 in. Caroche Gem, central gear, front steerer..44 in. Caroche tricycle, rear steerer.
▪ II. † caˈroche, v. Obs.
[f. the n.; or ad. It. carrocciare, carozzare, F. carrosser ‘to ride in a caroch’.]
a. intr. To ride or travel in a caroche.
b. trans. To convey in a caroche. Hence caˈroched ppl. a., seated or driven in a caroche.
1618Wither Motto (1633) 560 If but he and's whore Carrocht a Furlong are, the Coach man may For sennight after let his Horses play. 1619Bp. Williams Serm. Apparell (1620) 11 To Caroach it abroad, to go out and see. 1636Heywood Challenge i. i. Wks. 1874 V. 12 Came hee on horse-backe or Caroach't? 1650A. B. Mutat. Polemo 30, I speedily caroatcht thither. |