Definition of Carriage

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Carriage

That which is carried; burden; baggage.

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

The price or expense of carrying.

That which carries of conveys,

A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.

A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.

A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.

A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

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Carriage Quotations

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
Dolley Madison

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Grace Abbott

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.
William Dampier

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
Dario Fo

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.
Honor Blackman

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas de Quincey

Carriage Translations

carriage in Danish is waggon, vogn
carriage in Dutch is affuit
carriage in Finnish is vaunu
carriage in French is wagon
carriage in German is Wagenvorschub, Schreibwagen
carriage in Italian is azzardare
carriage in Latin is gestum (gero)
carriage in Norwegian is vogn, vogn

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