droshky

plural droshkys · plural droshkies · alternative droschke · alternative drosky · alternative drozhky

1. An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.

   Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

   1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital

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   Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles?

   1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

   Synonyms: droitzschka