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britchka en · NOUN

Etymology

From Russian бричка (brička), or its source, Polish bryczka, diminutive form of bryka (“carriage”).

Meanings

  1. (historical) A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering.
    • [H]e cracked his whip and the britchka leapt forward with increased speed over the cobblestones. 1842, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (trans. C. J. Hogarth), chapter 2, in Dead Souls:
    • At length, Vassili got up and covered over the britchka, the coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak and lifted his cap to make the sign of the cross at each successive thunderclap, and the horses pricked up their ears and snorted. 1854, Leo Tolstoy (trans. C. J. Hogarth), Boyhood, ch. 2 – The Thunderstorm
    • The conveyance stopped, a straw-coloured britshka, the summer conveyance of Count Chojnicki. 2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 158:
    • A britzka came up at this moment as the three men were speaking. 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 52, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
    • The appearance of our caravan was curious and grotesque. Our britchka was drawn by three camels, taken in tow by a man on foot. 1847, Xavier Hommaire De Hell, chapter 22, in Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c:

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Synonyms

brisky

Translations (9)

hu bricska (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · pl bryczka (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · cs bryčka (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · cv бричка (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · ru бри́чка (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · fr briska (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · uk бри́чка (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · pt britzka (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering) · de Britschka (type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering)