brichka

plural brichkas

1. alternativeAlternative form of britchka.

   [I]t is clear that my uncle has guests. There is a dormeuse, a brichka, and it seems—yes, there it is!—the jaunty carriage of the ispravnik of Serdobsk.

   1891, Michael Zagoskin, translated by Jeremiah Curtin, “An Evening on the Hopyor”, in Tales of Three Centuries, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, pages 16–17

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   A brichka is in form just like a small English waggon, and upon wheels, about the height and size of the little Coleseed waggons; it is made with a calash, like our chariots, which can be thrown back occasionally; and an apron of leather fastening up to within a foot of the top of the head: withinside, two curtains of leather draw and shut you up completely from the cold.

   1816 February, “Account of the Journey of Some English Emigrants from Riga to the Crimea; by a Lady of the Party”, in The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register: […], volume XLVI, part II for 1818, number 1 (315 overall), London: […] [F]or Sir Richard Phillips, […] by J[ames] W[illiam] and C[harles] Adlard, […], published 1 August 1818, →OCLC, page 9, column 1

   However, you would be hard put to find any travellers at all in the town of B—; only very rarely some squire owning eleven serfs and clad in his nankeen frock-coat clatters along the road in a contraption that is a cross between a brichka and a cart, peeping out from piles of flour sacks and lashing his bay mare with her following foal.

   2005, Nikolay Gogol, translated by Ronald Wilks, “The Carriage”, in Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, London: Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 197