- a variation of tumbrel.
tumbril
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After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril."
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First to hit the tumbril was Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, 40, the pudgy, sneering, widely resented husband of Nikita's daughter Rada.
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As a vehicle for the waxing dramatic talents of Ginger Rogers, The Primrose Path is something of a tumbril.
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The subtitle of William Harlan Hale's novel about Hannibal Hooker puts the tumbril before the horse: His Death and Adventures.
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When he was recovered, Lady Harriot continued to follow his fortunes through the campaign, and acquired a 'two-wheel tumbril, which had been constructed by the artillery.'
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote
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