carriage

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 Related terms 1.4 See also

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From Old Northern French cariage from carier "to carry".

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carriage (plural carriages)

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

2. A railroad car drawn by a locomotive.
3. (archaic) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing.

   His noble carriage concealed the heart of a knave.

4. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that [...] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

5. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
6. (US) (local to New England) A shopping cart.
7. (British) A baby stroller; a baby carriage.

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• baby carriage
• carriage return

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List of carriages (wheeled vehicles)

araba barouche Berlin brougham booby brake cab calash caravan carriole carryall cart Catherine chaise clarence coach coachee Coburg

coup croydon curricle dennet devil-carriage dobbin dormeuse double droshky family fiacre fly four-wheeler gharry gig Gladstone hackery

hackney hansom hearse horse-box horse-fly hutch jaun Jersey landau noddy phaeton Pilentum post-chariot Rockaway rumbelow shigram sledge sociable

solo sulky surrey tarantass unicorn vettura Victoria vinaigrette (person-drawn or pushed; not horse-drawn) vis-á-vis voiturin volante wagonette walnut-shell whirlicote whisky