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noun

Jaunt n.

A wearisome journey. (R.) "Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aery jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest."

A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.

verb

Jaunt v. t. To jolt; to jounce. (Obs.)

Jaunt v. i. (past & past part. jaunted; pres. part. jaunting)

To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

To ride on a jaunting car.

Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. (Written also jaunty car)

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Etymology of 'Jaunt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jaunt" Quotes from Famous Books

... to go out on this jaunt over the water," remarked the owner of the bungalow. "But I don't know. Perhaps you want me to go too badly. There may ...

— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock

... 4.20 P.M., Sunday, we rolled out of the station at Omaha, and started westward on our long jaunt. A couple of hours out, dinner was announced—an "event" to those of us who had yet to experience what it is to eat in one of Pullman's hotels on wheels; so, stepping into the car next forward of our sleeping palace, we found ourselves in the dining-car. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... hospitable hosts made no protest against the removal of the guests to Fort Prince George, although it might seem that the age of the one and the tender youth of the other ill fitted them to encounter this sudden transition from the cosy fireside to the raw vernal air on a misty midnight jaunt of a dozen miles through a primeval wilderness. And in truth the little lady seemed loath to leave the hearth; she visibly hesitated as she stood beside her chair with her hand on its back, and looked out at the black night, and the vague vista which the ruddy flare, from the wide door, ...

— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock

... that Coleridge was lately going through Sicily to Rome with a party, but that, being unwell, he returned back to Naples. We think there is some mistake in this account, and that his intended journey to Rome was in his former jaunt to Naples. If you know that at that time he had any such intention, will you write instantly? for I do not know whether I ought to write to Mrs. ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... me that it is essential for you to rest and distract your mind for the sake of your health. Perfectly true! Excellent! In a day or two I am taking a holiday and am going away for a sniff of a different atmosphere. Show that you are a friend to me, let us go together! Let us go for a jaunt as ...

— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

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