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caroche
[ kuh-rohch, -rohsh ]
noun
- (in the 17th century) a luxurious or stately coach or carriage.
caroche
/ əˈɒʃ /
noun
- a stately ceremonial carriage used in the 16th and 17th centuries
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of caroche1
Example Sentences
“My mistress, the Barbary horses be all there saving ten, and the caroche is a-building in the air: as to the jewels, seeing they be Mistress Lettice’s, I leave her to reply.”
When the caroches of the nobles had set down their owners at the banquethall, their varlets and servitors came to quaff a flagon of nut-brown ale in the 'King's Arms' gardens hard by.
Coming on horseback, or in their caroches, knights and ladies of the highest rank were assembled in the grand saloon of Godesberg, which was splendidly illuminated to receive them.
Sure, you might go in a waggon or a caroche!”
“But have you beheld,” asked Winter, when these topics were exhausted, “the King’s new caroche of the German fashion, with a roof to fall asunder at his Majesty’s pleasure?”
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