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droshky en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɹɒʃki/

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian дро́жки (dróžki), plural diminutive of дро́ги (drógi, “wagon, hearse”), plural of дрога́ (drogá, “centre pole of a carriage”).

Meanings

1. An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.
   • Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky. 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:
   • Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles? 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

Forms

Synonyms

droitzschka

Translations (13)

fr drojki (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · pl drynda (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · be дро́жкі (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · pl dorożka (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · uk дро́жки (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · fa درشکه (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · cs drožka (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · de Droschke (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · ru дро́ги (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · sah тэлиэскэ (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · ru дро́жки (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · ka დროშკები (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia) · pl fiakier (open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia)