barouche

n. 四轮四座大马车

发音

UK /bæˈɹuːʃ/

词形变化

barouches 复数 barouches

别名

barouch

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.

    Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.

词汇关系

名词

词源

From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.

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