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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Russian дро́жки (dróžki), plural diminutive of дро́ги (drógi, “wagon, hearse”), plural of дрога́ (drogá, “centre pole of a carriage”).
Pronunciation
Noun
droshky (plural droshkys or droshkies)
- An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.
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.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles?
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Translations
open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia