waggonette

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A form of wagonette — A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounwaggonette (plural waggonettes)

plural waggonettes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of wagonette.

    As I drive to the junction of lane and high-way, And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette, I look behind at the fading byway

    1914, Thomas Hardy, 'At Castle Boterel' in Satires of Circumstance, Macmillan, page 121
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    At eleven o’clock a commodious waggonette, drawn by four horses and driven by soldiers riding postillion-wise, was in readiness to pick up officers’ wives and others having business at the Puy.

    1892, Betham-Edwards, France of Today: A Survey Comparative and Retrospective, Tauchnitz publishers, page 28

Origin

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