carriage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A vehicle with wheels, usually pulled by horses, for carrying people.

   The bride arrived in a horse-drawn carriage.

2. 2
   noun

   One of the separate sections of a train where passengers sit.

   We found two empty seats in the front carriage.

3. 3
   noun

   The way a person holds and moves their body.

   She walked with the upright carriage of a dancer.

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Simplified etymology

Carriage, recorded from the late Middle English period, ultimately derives from Latin carro or carricare, “to load,” and belongs to the word family of car and carry.

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

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