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Tarantass N Four Wheeled Horse Drawn Vehicle Designed Reduce Jolts

Word tarantass
Definition n. A four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle designed to reduce jolts on long trips, widely used in Russia in the 19th century.

Sentence There was no railway or post road to the Surov district, and Levin drove there with his own horses in the tarantass.
Source Anna Karenina, III.XXV, p.323

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Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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