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UK
/kˈæɹɪdʒ/
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[ US /ˈkæɹɪdʒ, ˈkɛɹədʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈkæɹɪdʒ, ˈkɛɹədʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- a railcar where passengers ride
- a machine part that carries something else
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
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characteristic way of bearing one's body
stood with good posture
How To Use carriage In A Sentence
- This involved crossing a part of the line where there were several sidings and branch lines, on which a good deal of pushing of trucks and carriages to and fro -- that is "shunting" -- was going on. The Iron Horse
- In 1971, the recording centre moved to a beautiful carriage house in Baarn, which was soon christened 'Polyhymnia', after the muse of sublime and sacred hymn. Audiophile Audition Headlines
- A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
- I have seen at the resting places carriage loads of women of radiant beauty, and others mounted on a modest ass, such as composes the fortunes of the people of Montmorency. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
- They go in sheep's russet, many great men that might maintain themselves in cloth of gold, and seem to be dejected, humble by their outward carriage, when as inwardly they are swollen full of pride, arrogancy, and self-conceit. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
- And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
- Our study was powered primarily to look at the influence of bacterial vaginosis rather than chlamydial infection on miscarriage.
- Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
- Members in Ireland have tracked down the original carriage; it was acting as a holiday home, and was virtually intact!