curricle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a light, open, two-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses side by side, fashionable in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

   The visitors arrived in a curricle drawn by a matched pair of bay horses.

Borrowed from Latin curriculum ("running course; racing chariot"), from currere ("to run"). The English vehicle name appeared in the eighteenth century for a fast, fashionable carriage; it is an etymological doublet of curriculum.

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