wagonette

English

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Etymology

From wagon +‎ -ette.

Noun

wagonette (plural wagonettes)

  1. A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
    • 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, 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
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      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.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wagonette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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