单词 | carretela |
释义 | carretelan. Chiefly Philippine English. A type of light two-wheeled carriage, typically having passenger seats facing each other, and drawn by a single horse.Now chiefly used to take tourists on sightseeing trips. ΚΠ 1846 Daily News 29 Oct. 2/6 There was a perpetual stream of carriages..of every possible description, from the humble caritela and omnibus, to the carriage of the noble. 1979 B. Fegan Folk Capitalism (Ph.D. diss., Yale Univ.) iii. 190 Jeepneys and motorcycle tricycles have replaced the horse drawn karitela for passenger transport. 2017 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 12 Mar. On Fridays, Escaldo was always lined with carretelas whose horses were feeding on bran and molasses from pails hanging on their necks. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1846 |
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