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Carriage vs Brisky - What's the difference?

carriage | brisky |

As nouns the difference between carriage and brisky

is that carriage is the act of conveying; carrying while brisky is a britchka, a type of horse-drawn carriage.

As adjectives the difference between carriage and brisky

is that carriage is related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power while brisky is (rare) somewhat brisk; lively; energeticoxford english dictionary , second edition (1989).

carriage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of conveying; carrying.
  • Means of conveyance.
  • A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
    • The carriage ride was very romantic.
  • (British) A rail car, esp. designed for the conveyance of passengers.
  • A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
    • He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
  • (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 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 , 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 ).

    • Related terms

    * baby carriage * carriage gown * carriage return * gun carriage

    Hyponyms

    * araba * barouche * Berlin * brougham * booby * brake * cab * calash * caravan * carriole * carryall * cart * Catherine * chaise * clarence * coach * coachee * Coburg * coup * croydon * curricle * dennet * devil-carriage * dobbin * dormeuse * double * droshky * family * fiacre * fly * four-wheeler * gharry * gig * Gladstone * hackery * hackney * hansom * hearse * horse-box * horse-fly * hutch * jaun * Jersey * landau * noddy * phaeton * Pilentum * post-chariot * Rockaway * rumbelow * shigram * sledge * sociable * solo * sulky * surrey * tarantass * unicorn * vettura * Victoria * vinaigrette (person-drawn or pushed; not horse-drawn) * * voiturin * volante * wagonette * walnut-shell * whirlicote * whisky

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage -horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • *
  • *:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil!  You!   Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

    • See also

    * *

    brisky

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Somewhat brisk; lively; energetic.Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)
  • * , Midsummer Night's Dream , act 3, sc. 1:
    • Flute: Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,
    Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,
    Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,
    As true as truest horse that yet would never tire
  • * 1841 , , Old St. Paul's , book 4, ch. 2:
    • [H]e kept his eyes steadily fixed upon the ground, and walked at a brisky pace, as if desirous of getting out of the city as quickly as possible.
  • * 1960 Jan. 31, " Bon Voyage, Cold Front," Miami News (USA), page 1 (retrieved 25 Oct 2011):
    • Miami's latest cold front slipped on out over the ocean early yesterday, leaving behind more than a slight chill, brisky winds and a few showers.
  • * 1960 Oct. 21, Muriel Lawrence, " Irritation Result of Weakness," Victoria Advocate (USA), page 3 (retrieved 25 Oct 2011):
    • His secretary jumps when he rings; his brisky independent way with important customers is the envy of his sales staff.

    Noun

  • A britchka, a type of horse-drawn carriage.
  • * , "Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling":
    • Och! and wouldn't it be a blessed thing for your spirrits if ye cud lay your two peepers jist, upon Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, when he is all riddy drissed for the hopperer, or stipping into the Brisky for the drive into the Hyde Park.
  • * 1841 , , Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush , ch. 17:
    • Well, the nex day came: at 12 the carridge-and-four was waiting at the ambasdor's doar; and Miss Griffin and the faithfle Kicksey were punctial to the apintment.
    I don't wish to digscribe the marridge seminary—how the embasy chapling jined the hands of this loving young couple—how one of the embasy footmin was called in to witness the marridge—how Miss wep and fainted as usial—and how Deuceace carried her, fainting, to the brisky , and drove off to Fontingblo.
  • * 2010 , Robin Adair, Death and the Running Patterer , ISBN 9780425237038, Penguin, online edition:
    • The captain called for his carriage. . . . [T]he platterer was glad that Rossi's choice of transport was a brisky , and not a smaller vehicle. . . . Two horses gave it power and its light body, made largely of woven wicker, gave it roominess and speed.

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