Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barouche

/bəˈɹuːʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

Syllables: barouche
IPA: /bəˈɹuːʃ/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.

Example Sentences

"“What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”"
"[A]s the state barouche, with the greys and coachman in silver wig, and solemn footmen, drew up at the old churchyard-gate, there was such a crowd assembled there as had not been seen for many a long day."
"[…] all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts."
"Day was drooping on a fine evening in March as a brown barouche passed through the wrought-iron gates of Hare-Hatch House on to the open highway."
""Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the ' 80s.""

Etymology

From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Barutsche, baroccio, *birotium, birotus

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /bəˈɹuːʃ/

Inflected Forms

barouches (plural)

Derived Forms

barouchette

Rhymes With

douche whoosh cartouche louche baba ganoush ruche croquembouche farouche babouche debouche capuche tarboosh

Questions

How do you pronounce barouche?: The recorded pronunciation is /bəˈɹuːʃ/.
What does barouche mean?: A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
Where does barouche come from?: It is traced to German.

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