surry English
Alternative forms
* surrie
Synonyms
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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)
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* voiturin
* volante
* wagonette
* walnut-shell
* whirlicote
* whisky
Adjective
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Related to a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
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*: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.
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*: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.
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