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carriageable en · ADJ

Etymology

From carriage + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being conveyed in carriages.
   • Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage. 1857, John Ruskin, “Lecture II”, in The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, section III (Accumulation), page 101:
2. Passable by carriages.
   • Except, however, between the lower Shire and Blantyre-Zomba, one is not encouraged to spend hundreds of pounds on the making of a carriageable road, because of the presence, in various tracts, of the tsetse fly, […] 1895, Special Consular Reports, volume 12, United States: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 485:

Forms

Deriveds

uncarriageable