Word | tarantass |
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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 Image: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarantass.jpg |
Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary
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