barouche
pronunciation
How to pronounce barouche in British English:
UK [bə'ru:ʃ]
How to pronounce barouche in American English:
US [bə'ruʃ]
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- Noun:
- a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top
Word Origin
- barouche (n.)
- type of four-wheeled carriage, 1801, from dialectal German barutsche, from Italian baroccio "chariot," originally "two-wheeled car," from Latin birotus "two-wheeled," from bi- "two" + rotus "wheel," from rotare "go around" (see rotary). Frenchified in English, but the word is not French.