different between carriage vs brisky

English

Etymology

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??d?
• Hyphenation: car?riage

Noun

carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)

1. The act of conveying; carrying.
2. Means of conveyance.
3. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
5. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:

     He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
6. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
7. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
8. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
9. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
10. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

11. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage

    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.

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See also

• carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Carriages

English

Etymology

brisk +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ski

Adjective

brisky (comparative more brisky, superlative most brisky)

1. (rare) Somewhat brisk; lively; energetic.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc. 1:

     Flute: Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,

     Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,

     Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,

     As true as truest horse that yet would never tire

   • 1841, William Harrison Ainsworth, Old St. Paul's, book 4, ch. 2:

     [H]e kept his eyes steadily fixed upon the ground, and walked at a brisky pace, as if desirous of getting out of the city as quickly as possible.

   • 1960 Jan. 31, "Bon Voyage, Cold Front," Miami News (USA), page 1 (retrieved 25 Oct 2011):

     Miami's latest cold front slipped on out over the ocean early yesterday, leaving behind more than a slight chill, brisky winds and a few showers.

   • 1960 Oct. 21, Muriel Lawrence, "Irritation Result of Weakness," Victoria Advocate (USA), page 3 (retrieved 25 Oct 2011):

     His secretary jumps when he rings; his brisky independent way with important customers is the envy of his sales staff.

Noun

brisky (plural form uncertain: briskys or briskies)

1. (rare, probably obsolete, possibly nonstandard) A britchka, a type of horse-drawn carriage.
   • c. 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, "Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling":

     Och! and wouldn't it be a blessed thing for your spirrits if ye cud lay your two peepers jist, upon Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, when he is all riddy drissed for the hopperer, or stipping into the Brisky for the drive into the Hyde Park.

   • I don't wish to digscribe the marridge seminary—how the embasy chapling jined the hands of this loving young couple—how one of the embasy footmin was called in to witness the marridge—how Miss wep and fainted as usial—and how Deuceace carried her, fainting, to the brisky, and drove off to Fontingblo.

   • 2010, Robin Adair, Death and the Running Patterer, ?ISBN, Penguin, online edition:

     The captain called for his carriage. . . . [T]he platterer was glad that Rossi's choice of transport was a brisky, and not a smaller vehicle. . . . Two horses gave it power and its light body, made largely of woven wicker, gave it roominess and speed.

References

Anagrams

• Birkys