Barouche vs Tarantass - What's the difference?
barouche | tarantass |
(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:
A low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in Russia, capable of having its wheels replaced with runners during the winter.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 396:
*:From Samarkand, using that peculiarly Russian means of transport, the springless, horse-drawn tarantass , Curzon reached Tashkent by the post road in thirty uncomfortable hours.
As nouns the difference between barouche and tarantass
is that barouche is (vehicles) four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver while tarantass is a low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in russia, capable of having its wheels replaced with runners during the winter.barouche
English
(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."