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.

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

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