karrozin

plural karrozins · plural karrozini

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of karozzin.

   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

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   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

   Shortly after dawn, a steady stream of people made its way on foot, in flat cars, or in karrozini (cabs) to the Cathedral Church at Mdina. The ceremony took place in a wartime setting with the cathedral stripped of many of its treasures.

   2012, Dennis A. Castillo, “The Summer of 1942”, in The Santa Marija Convoy: Faith and Endurance in Wartime Malta, 1940–1942, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 189

   Grace loved these Sunday afternoon excursions and usually it meant and usually it meant a trip home in a horse-drawn karrozin after mum and dad had chatted to various people who called in to the bar.

   2014 March 31, Josephine Burden, chapter 2, in Washing Up in Malta, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, part 1 (Starting Out), page 31