Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
caroche . - noun See
kaross .
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- noun obsolete a
European state coach - noun obsolete ,(
nautical ) the open space underneath thepoop deck of agalley where thecaptain had hisbed ; it evolved into thecabin
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Examples
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Also: la grande roue = the Ferris wheel une roue dentée = a cogwheel un bateau à roues = a paddle boat véhicule à deux/quatre roues = two -/four-wheeled vehicles une roue de secours = a spare wheel or tire une roue de transmission = a driving wheel la roue de la Fortune = the wheel of Fortune la cinquième roue du carosse = an entirely useless person, thing
Enfants 2004
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I have been guilty of another piece of extravagance in hiring a carosse de remise, for which I pay twelve livres a day.
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Instead of keeping his promise to the valet, he put the money in his pocket; and the fellow returned in a rage, exclaiming that he was un gros cheval de carosse, a great coach-horse.
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Meudon, and Choissi; and therefore, I thought the difference in point of expence would not be great, between a carosse de remise and a hackney coach.
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I lived for months one time in the Hôtel de Transylvania, Rue Condé, and kept my _carosse de remise_, and gambled like every other ass of my kind in Paris till I had not a louis to my credit.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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When Louis XIV. was a boy he one day spoke of "un carosse"; he should have said "une carosse," but he was king, and having changed the gender of carosse the change was accepted, and unto this day carosse is masculine.
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In Cotgrave's Dictionary carosse appears as feminine, but Ménage notes it as having been changed from feminine to masculine.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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The King said "un carosse," and that is what it is now.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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The Queen is in another _carosse_ with her children, and the King, being a free lance, drives in the coach with the royal favorites or rides beside it as his fancy dictates.
In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1886
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The King said ` ` un carosse, '' and that is what it is now.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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