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carriage
A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn; litters (palanquins) and sedan chairs are excluded, since they are wheelless vehicles. The carriage is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods. It may be light, smart and fast or heavy, large and comfortable. Carriages normally have suspension using leaf springs, elliptical springs (in the 19th century) or leather strapping. A public passenger vehicle would not usually be called a carriage – terms for such include stagecoach, charabanc and omnibus. Working vehicles such as the (four-wheeled) wagon and (two-wheeled) cart share important parts of the history of the carriage, as is the fast (two-wheeled) chariot.〔Tarr, Laszlo. ''The History of the Carriage''. Arco Pub. Co, 1969.〕〔Piggott, Stuart. ''Wagon, Chariot and Carriage: Symbol and Status in the History of Transport''. Thames and Hudson, London, 1992〕
==Overview==
The word ''carriage'' (abbreviated ''carr'' or ''cge'') is from Old Northern French ''cariage'', to carry in a vehicle.〔''Oxford English Dictionary'' 1933: Car, Carriage〕 The word ''car'', then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century;〔 it was also used for railway carriages, and was extended to cover ''automobile'' around the end of the nineteenth century, when early models were called ''horseless carriages''.
A carriage is sometimes called a ''team'', as in "horse and team". A carriage with its horse is a ''rig''. An elegant horse-drawn carriage with its retinue of servants is an ''equipage''. A carriage together with the horses, harness and attendants is a ''turnout'' or ''setout''. A procession of carriages is a ''cavalcade''.
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