BAROUCHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barouche mean? 

• BAROUCHE (noun)
  The noun BAROUCHE has 1 sense:

1. a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top

  Familiarity information: BAROUCHE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAROUCHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("barouche" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

 Context examples 

The big barouche came lumbering over the sward in our direction until Sir Lothian Hume caught sight of us, when he shouted to his postillions to pull up.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. John Dashwood wished it likewise; but in the mean while, till one of these superior blessings could be attained, it would have quieted her ambition to see him driving a barouche.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And letting down the side-glass to distinguish, 'Tis Crawford's, Crawford's barouche, I protest!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Her ladyship's carriage was a barouche, and did not hold more than four with any comfort.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Little Nap is a handsome boy, who sits chatting to his tutor, and kisses his hand to the people as he passes in his four-horse barouche, with postilions in red satin jackets and a mounted guard before and behind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In front came a huge yellow barouche, in which sat Sir Lothian Hume, Crab Wilson, and Captain Barclay, his trainer.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was certainly better pleased to hand her into the barouche than to assist her in ascending the box, and his complacency seemed confirmed by the arrangement.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They had not long finished their breakfast before Mrs. Palmer's barouche stopped at the door, and in a few minutes she came laughing into the room: so delighted to see them all, that it was hard to say whether she received most pleasure from meeting her mother or the Miss Dashwoods again.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Look at the barouche, with the sharp-featured man peeping out of the window.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I dare say Mr. Crawford would take my two nieces and me in his barouche, and Edmund can go on horseback, you know, sister, and Fanny will stay at home with you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)