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单词 carriage company
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carriage company
carriage company n. Obsolete people who ride in their own private carriages; (by implication) people of wealth and status; the upper classes, the well-to-do.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentlefolk
gentlesc1405
gentlefolka1556
genteels1652
gentle-people1755
carriage company1812
carriage1819
gentilities1833
1812 St. James's Chron. 2 May The most distinguished of the carriage company were, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Cowper,..Sir J. and Lady Lade, four-in-hand.
1827 Guards III. xii. 207 An appearance in the Park, where the patrician carriage-company raise clouds of dust, and seem as if they would lord it over the plebeian and middle order.
1883 A. Gallenga Iberian Reminisc. I. ii. x. 255 In the cool of the evening, the carriage company of the pleasure-loving city enjoy their fashionable drive.
1907 M. Deane Other Pawn ii. xi. 184 It is mighty fine, of course, to be ‘carriage company’.
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