karrozzin
English
Noun
karrozzin (plural karrozzins or karrozzini)
- Alternative spelling of karozzin
- 1937, Great Britain and the East, volume 49, London: Great Britain and the East, Limited, OCLC 828212736, page 985, column 1:
- The horse cab (karrozzin) has not yet been driven off the street by the motor-car, and provides a pleasant mode of making short journeys; [...]
- 1963, Harold Rose, Your Guide to Malta, London: Alvin Redman, OCLC 796981651, page 77:
- Characteristic of the island is the horse-drawn karrozzin—unfortunately rapidly disappearing—but which you will still see in many places around Valletta, [...]
- 1964, R[obert] Franklin Brown, Jr., USS Shangri-La, Attack Carrier, Boston, Mass.: Burdette, OCLC 12714909, page 205, column 1:
- The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.
- 2003, Giovanni Bonello, Histories of Malta, volume 4 (Convictions and Conjectures), Valletta, Malta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, →ISBN, page 224, column 2:
- Fürst missed the commercial foresight to paint more of it and less of the dazzling sheen of waves. With ghonnellas, dgħajsas and karrozzini, his paintings would today fetch four or five figure prices at auction.
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