karozzin

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1. MaltaroadA type of traditional carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses.

   The Maltese horse-drawn cab – the karozzin – was introduced in 1856 and is still a familiar sight in Valletta.

   1969, Bryan Balls, Traveller’s Guide to Malta: A Concise Guide to the Mediterranean Islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, Valletta, Malta: Thornton Cox, →OCLC, page 15

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   The horse cab (karrozzin) has not yet been driven off the street by the motor-car, and provides a pleasant mode of making short journeys; [...]

   1937, Great Britain and the East, volume 49, London: Great Britain and the East, Limited, →OCLC, page 985, column 1

   Characteristic of the island is the horse-drawn karrozzin—unfortunately rapidly disappearing—but which you will still see in many places around Valletta, [...]

   1963, Harold Rose, Your Guide to Malta, London: Alvin Redman, →OCLC, page 77

   The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.

   1964, R[obert] Franklin Brown, Jr., USS Shangri-La, Attack Carrier, Boston, Mass.: Burdette, →OCLC, page 205, column 1

   Those wishing to go at a gentler pace can hire a karrozin for short sight-seeing trips or take a dghaisa across the bays and harbours.

   1969, Charles Owen, The Maltese Islands, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: Frederick A. Praeger, →OCLC, page 150

   Horse carriages, so popular in years gone by, reappeared in surprising number, including dozens of those graceful, elegantly appointed victorias (called karrozins) that had formerly served as Malta's taxis.

   1984, Charles A[lbert] Jellison, Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942, Hanover, N.H.: Published for the University of New Hampshire by University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 78