a large horse-drawn four-wheeled Russian carriage without springs
Word origin
C19: from Russian tarantas, from Kazan Tatar taryntas
tarantass in American English
(ˌtɑːrənˈtɑːs)
noun
a large, four-wheeled Russian carriage mounted without springs on two parallel longitudinal wooden bars
Also: tarantas
Word origin
[1840–50; ‹ Russ tarantás, said to be ‹ Tatar tarιntas]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bypass, colloid, dope, striation, warmup