vetturan.
/vɛˈt(j)ʊərə/, U.S. /vɛˈturə/ Now chiefly historical.
A four-wheeled carriage used in Italy, esp. one which is for hire.
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1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. i. 63 The price of the vettura's is fixed differently according to the difference of province or road.
1789 A. Young Jrnl. 18 Oct. in Trav. France (1792) i. 209 I agreed with a vetturino, to take me this morning at six o'clock, to Brescia; but..I insisted that he should not come for me without his vettura.
1851 J. Gibson in Lady Eastlake Life (1870) iii. 45 I proceeded on my way in the vettura.
1883 C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) II. x. 152 We took a little one horse vettura and drove..to Ponte Grande.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Feb. 98/2 We find Henry James envying the blessed generation that crawled by a vettura, taking oxen for a spurt.
1987 Weekend Financial Times 25 July p. xvi/2 Land travel..could be reasonably comfortable for those who could afford their own carriages or hire a vettura.
2012 N. Roe John Keats xxiv. 386 They left Naples, heading north in a horse-drawn vettura.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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