tilbury
See also: Tilbury
English
editEtymology
editFrom Tilbury (“surname of the inventor”).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɪlbəɹi/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
edittilbury (plural tilburies)
- (historical) A small open two-wheeled carriage.
- 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:
- Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair:
- If she was jocular, he used to revolve her jokes in his mind, and explode over them half an hour afterwards in the street, to the surprise of the groom in the tilbury […]
- (slang, obsolete) Sixpence (formerly the fare from Gravesend to Tilbury Fort).
Descendants
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English tilbury.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittilbury m (plural tilburys)
Further reading
edit- “tilbury”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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