barouche
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- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 8
Definition of barouche
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
““What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.””
“[A]s the state barouche, with the greys and coachman in silver wig, and solemn footmen, drew up at the old churchyard-gate, there was such a crowd assembled there as had not been seen for many a long day.”
“[…] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.”
“Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway.”
“"Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s."”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.
Words you can make from barouche
151 playable · top: BREACH (13 pts)
Best play breach 13 points6-letter words
8 words5-letter words
23 words4-letter words
50 words- BACH 11 pts
- CHUB 11 pts
- ACHE 9 pts
- ARCH 9 pts
- BRUH 9 pts
- BUHR 9 pts
- CHAO 9 pts
- CHAR 9 pts
- EACH 9 pts
- ECHO 9 pts
- HABU 9 pts
- HERB 9 pts
- OCHE 9 pts
- OUCH 9 pts
- CARB 8 pts
- CRAB 8 pts
- CUBE 8 pts
- CURB 8 pts
- HARE 7 pts
- HEAR 7 pts
- HERO 7 pts
- HOAR 7 pts
- HOER 7 pts
- HORA 7 pts
- HOUR 7 pts
- RHEA 7 pts
- ACRE 6 pts
- ACRO 6 pts
- ARCO 6 pts
- BARE 6 pts
- BEAR 6 pts
- BEAU 6 pts
- BOAR 6 pts
- BORA 6 pts
- BORE 6 pts
- BRAE 6 pts
- BURA 6 pts
- CARE 6 pts
- CERO 6 pts
- CORE 6 pts
- CURE 6 pts
- ECRU 6 pts
- ORCA 6 pts
- RACE 6 pts
- ROBE 6 pts
- RUBE 6 pts
- AERO 4 pts
- EURO 4 pts
- ROUE 4 pts
- UREA 4 pts
3-letter words
52 words- BAH 8 pts
- HOB 8 pts
- HUB 8 pts
- OCH 8 pts
- CAB 7 pts
- COB 7 pts
- CUB 7 pts
- HAE 6 pts
- HAO 6 pts
- HER 6 pts
- HOE 6 pts
- HUE 6 pts
- RAH 6 pts
- RHO 6 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- ARB 5 pts
- ARC 5 pts
- BAE 5 pts
- BAR 5 pts
- BOA 5 pts
- BRA 5 pts
- BRO 5 pts
- BUR 5 pts
- CAR 5 pts
- COR 5 pts
- CRU 5 pts
- CUE 5 pts
- CUR 5 pts
- ECO 5 pts
- ECU 5 pts
- OBA 5 pts
- OBE 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- ORB 5 pts
- ORC 5 pts
- REB 5 pts
- REC 5 pts
- ROB 5 pts
- ROC 5 pts
- RUB 5 pts
- URB 5 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ARO 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- EAU 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- OAR 3 pts
- ORA 3 pts
- ORE 3 pts
- OUR 3 pts
- ROE 3 pts
- RUE 3 pts
2-letter words
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