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单词 droshky
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droshkydroskyn.

Brit. /ˈdrɒʃki/, U.S. /ˈdrɔʃki/, /ˈdrɑʃki/ /ˈdrɒskɪ/
Forms: Also droitzschka, drojeka, droshka, droshke, droshki, droska, droskcha.
Etymology: < Russian drožki, diminutive of drogi waggon, hearse; properly plural of droga perch, or ‘reach’ of a four-wheeled vehicle. So French droschki, German droschke.
A kind of vehicle: originally and properly a Russian low four-wheeled carriage without a top, consisting of a narrow bench on which the passengers sit astride or sideways, their feet resting on bars near the ground; hence transferred to other vehicles in use elsewhere; in some German towns the name of the ordinary four-wheelers or fiacres plying for hire.
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1809 R. K. Porter Travelling Sketches Russia & Sweden I. iii. 23 A sort of hireable machine..denominated a Drojeka.
1809 R. K. Porter Travelling Sketches Russia & Sweden II. xxviii. 20 The vehicle being a droshky, there was no other servant but the coachman.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 25 June (1939) 191 [At Blair-Adam] We drove in the droskie and walked in the evening.
1855 Englishwoman in Russia 255 They were taken home by the police in droshskies.
1872 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 58 At Frankfurt..to get on the Bavarian line you have to take a droschke.
1882 ‘J. Strathesk’ Bits from Blinkbonny xiii. 294 He met the drosky containing Mrs. Barrie and the children.
attributive.1838 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Greece, Turkey, Russia 71/1 The drosky boy..dressed in a long surtout..sits on the end.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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