wagonette
nounEtymology From wagon + -ette.
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A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.
- The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him.1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 298:
- On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
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- The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.1954, People's China, numbers 1-12, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
- In my day-dreams, I could easily visualise myself (wearing a regulation bowler hat, no doubt) next to an equally bowler-hatted Dr Watson, sucking on a pipe and looking at the civilised and well-cultivated pastoral, unveiling behind the window. "The train pulled up at a small wayside station, and we all descended. Outside, beyond the low, white fence, a wagonette with a pair of cobs was waiting. Our coming was evidently a great event, for station master and porters clustered round us to carry out our luggage." At this point, I had to descend - from my cloud-cuckoo-land, to look up the word 'cob' in my dog-eared English-Russian Dictionary, published in Moscow in 1948. According to that, the word's only meaning was 'male swan'. Hmm... a wagonette, drawn by swans.2026 April 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Literature on the track”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 68: