vecture
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vectūra. Doublet of vettura and voiture.
Noun
[edit]vecture
- (obsolete) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- the vecture or carriage
Further reading
[edit]- “vecture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]vectūre
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