wagonette

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Etymology

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From wagon +‎ -ette.

Noun

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wagonette (plural wagonettes)

  1. A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.
    • 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 10, page 298:
      The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him.
    • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
      On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre
    • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
      The departure was not unduly prolonged. [] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
    • 1954, People's China[2], numbers 1-12, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
      He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.

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