单词 | carriageless |
释义 | carriagelessadj. Not possessing or having access to a carriage; (of a road, etc.) empty of carriages. ΚΠ 1838 J. W. Carlyle Let. 18 Sept. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1985) X. 181 The Elliots returned last Thursday so I am again carriageless, returned to an earth not worthy of me. 1861 ‘F. G. Trafford’ City & Suburb I. 284 Accordingly, carriageless John Perman was..fain to hand his sister..into a Tottenham omnibus. 1922 T. Wright Romance of Shoe 162 So many persons had attended the funeral that the streets were carriageless. 2011 R. Conniff Species Seekers i. 19 Lever, clearly overwhelmed, attempted to discourage the carriageless lower classes by refusing entry to anyone arriving on foot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1838 |
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