noun
- a four-wheeled carriage with a high front seat outside for the driver, facing seats inside for two couples, and a calash top over the back seat.
noun
- a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, having a retractable hood over the rear half, seats inside for two couples facing each other, and a driver’s seat outside at the front
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.