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Definition of Caroches
1. caroche [n] - See also: caroche
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caroches
Literary usage of Caroches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... how bravely they will maintain her, like any Lady, Countess, Duchess, or Queen;
they shall have gowns, tiers, jewels, coaches, and caroches, choice diet ..."
2. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"When the caroches of the nobles had set down their owners at the banquet hall,
their varlets and servitors came to quaff a flagon of nut-brown ale in the ..."
3. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1872)
"For those vj. caroches to bring hym to his fyrst ... For the hyre of 3 caroches,
taken vp to bring Zacharias Reuel, Ambass., to y" marquis of Brande'berg, ..."
4. The Manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, Esq., F. S. A. of Richmond, Surrey by John Eliot Hodgkin, Samuel Pepys, Gascoigne, John Cordy Jeaffreson (1897)
"... that is, for six days' service in journeying to and fro between London and
Dover; and (e) 2/. “for two caroches to bring “ the Ambassador of ..."
5. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"... in their misteries by reason of ye multitude of coaches & caroches vsed in
eury place, wherby or principal! leather, wherein we excell all other ..."
6. Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on by Nathan Drake (1817)
"... the gentleman (I'll undertake with him) is a man of fair living, and able to
maintain a lady in her two caroches a day, besides pages, monkeys, ..."
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