Meaning & use
Carriage
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A horse-drawn vehicle for passengers, or the manner in which a person holds and moves their body.
See it in a sentence
The bride arrived at the church in a white horse-drawn carriage.
Years of ballet training gave her an elegant, upright carriage.
A note on using this word
In British English, "carriage" also refers to a railway passenger car, while in the US the equivalent term is "car" or "coach."
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A separate section of a passenger train.
We found seats in the second carriage from the front.
3. noun
The moving part of a machine, such as a typewriter, that holds and shifts material being worked on.
She pushed the typewriter's carriage back to start a new line.
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