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Definition of carriage and pair in English: carriage and pairnoun A four-wheeled passenger carriage pulled by two horses. Example sentencesExamples - There was a carriage and pair standing at the gate, which she recognized as Dr Madeley's, the physician from Rotherby.
- There were ponies for the children and a goat-chaise which they drove round the grounds and a carriage and pair for the parents.
- All the big houses had their carriages and pairs, complete with footmen, cocked hats and jack boots.
- About this hour a carriage and pair was heard to dash up to the front door and pull up sharp, with a good deal of noise, as if caused by two excited horses.
- A ghostly carriage and pair is said to travel down Brimpton Lane on a certain night in January.
- On Monday afternoon a collision between a carriage and pair and a bicycle occurred at the end of Bridge Street, Newark.
- All those houses along the main road to Windermere, they all had their carriages and pairs and their different uniforms - some were brown and some were green.
- It is reputed that he often boasted that with his carriage and pair he could beat the train from Derby to Shottle Station.
- Fourteen carriages and pairs followed the coffin as the cortège went from the Church up to Saint Tudno's Cemetery on the Great Orme.
- Because of the amount of preparation needed to present the carriage and pair at their best and the unhurried pace of your event, we conduct only one wedding per day.
- It is scarcely possible to keep a handsome well-appointed carriage and pair under L300 a year.
- However, we had the satisfaction of seeing our employers roll up to the office from their seaside suburb in carriages and pairs, and that gave to our days a dignity they might otherwise have lacked.
- He'd drive to our house with a carriage and pair [of horses], that sort of thing.
- A coach house was a building originally constructed to house the family's carriage and pair.
- It is said that the carriage and pair in which Ann and Henry used to drive around Lincoln was the smartest ‘turn-out’ in town.
- Tom did not hesitate, and as the carriage and pair raced by he hurled himself at the bridle of the nearest horse and gradually brought the terrified animals to a halt.
- It is scarcely possible to keep a handsome well-appointed carriage and pair under £300 a year.
- Fine people rode in carriages and pairs, Oxford undergraduates rode in flys (one-horse, light carriages, usually hired) from the station, all delivery was horse drawn.
- She watched a carriage and pair rattling by, driven by a stout young man in a many-caped coat, his well-bred chestnuts picking up their hooves in a brisk trot.
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