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  • noun Plural form of wagonette.

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Examples

  • The Grand Stand, a bark shed open to the air on three sides, was resorted to only in the case of a sudden downpour; the occupants of the dust-laden buggies, wagonettes, brakes, carts and drays preferred to follow events standing on their seats, and on the boards that served them as seats.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • On the walls were coloured photographs of the same scene, and of the system of wagonettes that took tourists to see it.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre; but even then they felt the vast forest land with its one dumpy dome of churchyard and church as a place oddly dumb and neglected.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • On the walls were coloured photographs of the same scene, and of the system of wagonettes that took tourists to see it.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre; but even then they felt the vast forest land with its one dumpy dome of churchyard and church as a place oddly dumb and neglected.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Two waiters came to assist Amalie; a band played in an arbour; carts and wagonettes were hitched to the front of the house; and the noise and merry-making lasted till late in the night.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • The wagonettes returned to a scene of utter chaos.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

  • The wagonettes returned to a scene of utter chaos.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

  • Driving round in wagonettes, his retinue saw the sights of the capital and made their purchases, but the Sultan himself was strictly guarded from pressmen and others who might give local publicity to his claims.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • There was hardly any one among the thirty members of the Hartfield Parish Choir, who drove in two big wagonettes to the station, that did not look prepared to enjoy the day's outing to the utmost.

    Archie's Mistake G. E. Wyatt

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