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Webster 1913 Edition


Barouche

Ba-rouche′

,
Noun.
[G.
barutsche
, It.
baroccio
,
biroccio
, LL.
barrotium
, fr. L.
birotus
two-wheeled;
bi- = bis
twice +
rota
wheel.]
A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

Definition 2024


barouche

barouche

English

Noun

A barouche.

barouche (plural barouches)

  1. (vehicles) Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 3:
      Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.
    • 1969 Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288:
      "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."