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单词 jaunting-car
释义

jaunting-carn.

Brit. /ˈdʒɔːntɪŋˌkɑː/, /ˈdʒɑːntɪŋˌkɑː/, U.S. /ˈdʒɔntɪŋˌkɑr/, /ˈdʒɑntɪŋˌkɑr/
Etymology: < jaunting verbal noun (see jaunt v.) + car n.1
A light, two-wheeled vehicle, popular in Ireland, now carrying four persons seated two on each side, either back to back ( outside jaunting-car) or facing each other ( inside jaunting-car), with a seat in front for the driver. Formerly made for a larger number of passengers: see quot. 18052.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with seats facing the side
jaunting-car1805
sidecar1845
outside car1849
outsider1900
1805 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (ed. 3) II. App. §3. 5 There has been introduced some of a foreign description, called German Waggons, and Jaunting Carrs.
1805 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (ed. 3) II. App. §3. 6 The Jaunting Carr is a one horse carriage..so contrived as to carry many passengers; intended for gentlemen to go a pleasuring with their families, they driving themselves.. The body is made to project over the wheels, is of a round form, and capacious enough to hold five or six persons comfortable, besides the driver, forming, as it were, a small apartment, and will even afford a small table to stand in the middle.
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 25 771/2 There is a vehicular machine, peculiar, I believe, to Ireland called ‘an outside jaunting-car!’
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy i He..drove out the nurse and children on the jaunting-car.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 303 In general there was no way of travelling except by the old jaunting-car.
1894 H. Caine Manxman 351 A company of jolly fellows in a jaunting-car.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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