carriage
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English cariage, from fro-nor cariage, from carier ("to carry").
Pronunciation Nouncarriage
- The act of conveying; carrying.
- Coordinate term: haulage
- 1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775, page 6:
- The remainder of the men were employed in unbarreling our Pork and stringing it on poles for convenience of carriage, and carrying our Batteaux from the river to the pond.
- Means of conveyance.
- A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.
- Hyponym: coach
- Antonyms: wagon
- The carriage ride was very romantic.
- (rail, British, Abbreviation of railway carriage) A railroad car
- The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.
- The runner has a very low arm carriage.
- (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
- (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 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.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
- Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
- (US, New England) A shopping cart.
- (British) A stroller; a baby carriage.
- The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).
- Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate
- (archaic) That which is carried, baggage
- French: carrosse
- German: Kutsche
- Italian: carrozza
- Portuguese: carruagem
- Russian: (coach) каре́та
- Spanish: coche, carruaje
- German: Frachtgeld, Fracht, Fuhrlohn
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