单词 | wagonette |
释义 | wagonettewaggonetten. A four-wheeled carriage, made open or with a removable cover and furnished with a seat or bench at each side facing inwards and with one or two seats arranged crosswise in front. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > wagonette or break break1856 wagonette1858 shooting phaeton1890 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Waggonette, a carriage to carry six or eight persons. 1862 Mrs. H. Freshfield Tour Grisons iv. 58 At half-past five the wagonettes (to give a fashionable name to our primitive vehicles) were in readiness. 1864 J. Gilbert & G. C. Churchill Excurs. Dolomite Mts. 95 We..engaged a long-bodied waggonet to Reutte, in Tyrol. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 10 There was a large waggonette, of varnished oak, and a pair of small, powerful horses waiting for him there. 1875 S. Sidney Bk. Horse ii. 23 The wagonette..did not come into general use until some years after the International Exhibition of 1851, although, according to the Report on the Carriage Department of the Exhibition of 1862, ‘the first wagonette was built in 1846.’ Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as wagonette-driver. ΚΠ 1877 ‘C. Bede’ Figaro at Hastings 50 The wagonette-drivers, with uplifted whip-hand, hailing me with ‘Now for Fairlight and the Lover's Seat!’ C2. wagonette omnibus n. a motor-omnibus with accommodation resembling that of a wagonette. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types wagonette omnibus1903 jitney bus1914 lorry-bus1919 mammy wagon1957 postbus1957 mammy lorry1959 jeepney1961 danfo1973 transbus1973 molue1976 bendy bus1978 daladala1983 1903 Motoring Ann. 244 A waggonette omnibus. A little waggonette 'bus,..capable of seating about a dozen persons, has been plying on the Putney to Piccadilly route for more than a year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1858 |
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