Babouche vs Barouche - What's the difference?
babouche | barouche |
A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel
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, passage= BABOUCHE , S. F. (soulier des Turcs, & autres peuples orientaux,) a Shoe worn by the'' Turks, ''and other Oriental Nations .
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(vehicles) Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
* 1919 , , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 3:
* 1969 , New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 288:
As nouns the difference between babouche and barouche
is that babouche is a Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel while barouche is four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.babouche
English
Noun
(en noun)barouche
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(wikipedia barouche)Noun
(en noun)- Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.
- "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."