tilbury

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Here's a fine stud of horses, which, strange though it sounds, Live neither on corn nor on hay; A gentleman's carriage, and tilbury, too, For which we've no taxes to pay.

From The Wonders of a Toy Shop by Anonymous

Let no one imagine that a patache bears that relation to a cabriolet which a dennet does to a tilbury; for ours, at least, would in England have been called a very sorry higgler's cart.

From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by Hughes, John

When they had come almost to the end of Guarda-Velha street the tilbury had to come to a stop; the thoroughfare was blocked by a coach that had broken down.

From Brazilian Tales by Goldberg, Isaac

He drove up in his tilbury, and said he was on his way to Plymouth.

From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

This time he only brought two horses with him: one for a tilbury, and a magnificent saddle one; so when the secretary rode, he used a horse that Don Rosendo put at his disposal.

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando