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Carriage   /kˈærɪdʒ/  /kˈɛrədʒ/   Listen
noun
Carriage  n.  
1.
That which is carried; burden; baggage. (Obs.) "David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage." "And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem."
2.
The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying. "Nine days employed in carriage."
3.
The price or expense of carrying.
4.
That which carries of conveys, as:
(a)
A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
(b)
A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
(c)
A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
(d)
A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
5.
The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners. "His gallant carriage all the rest did grace."
6.
The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management. "The passage and whole carriage of this action."
Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage.
Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.






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"Carriage" Quotes from Famous Books



... We dismissed the carriage, went into the house, and sat down. The old gentleman was perfectly cool and collected, but he lit his clay pipe, and reflected for a good five minutes before he opened ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... piercing gaze, no possibility of pretending that she was a government plane and flying lawfully there. For straight across her middle, from wing-tip to wing-tip, still blazoned THE THUNDER BIRD in letters as bold and black as Bland's brush and a quart of carriage paint could ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... the patriotism of his troops - they could not do otherwise than win, with the fairest portion of their well-beloved country spread out before them like a picture. A large cannon, captured from the Turks, is standing on its carriage by the road-side, a mute but eloquent ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... took me away from the house, and I never saw it again. My old nurse went with me. I was six years old then, and I lived with her, in a poorer place than before, and not close to the old house, for we went a long way in a carriage to reach it. We lived together so till I was near eight years old. The dark gentleman never came near us—but one day a man came, and said he had bought her, I think, and she must go with him; and they took her away from me. I clung to her, but ...
— Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,--and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams • Tobias Aconite

... carriage at a little bridge over the Gave, and, under the direction of a guide who had accompanied us from Bedous, we set forth, beside its rushing current, towards the cascade of Lescun, far up in the hills. The loud roar and dash of the beautiful torrent, foaming and splashing over its bed, strewn ...
— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello


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