carriole
English
Noun
carriole (plural carrioles)
- Alternative spelling of cariole.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan carriola, from carri (“chariot”), from Vulgar Latin *carreum, variant of carrus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʁjɔl/
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Noun
carriole f (plural carrioles)
- cart
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- […] Hivert, de loin, hélait les carrioles sur la route, tandis que les bourgeois qui avaient passé la nuit au bois Guillaume descendaient la côte tranquillement, dans leur petite voiture de famille.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Canada) sleigh
Further reading
- “carriole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
Noun
carriole f
- plural of carriola