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waggonette en · NOUN

Etymology

From waggon + -ette.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wagonette.
   alt of wagonette
   • At eleven o’clock a commodious waggonette, drawn by four horses and driven by soldiers riding postillion-wise, was in readiness to pick up officers’ wives and others having business at the Puy. 1892, Betham-Edwards, France of Today: A Survey Comparative and Retrospective, Tauchnitz publishers, page 28:
   • As I drive to the junction of lane and high-way, And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette, I look behind at the fading byway 1914, Thomas Hardy, 'At Castle Boterel' in Satires of Circumstance, Macmillan, page 121

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