Category:Clarence carriages

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A close four-wheeled carriage with seats for four inside (source-Oxford English Dictionary)

Etymology: Named in compliment to the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV.
1843 Thackeray Ravenswing iii, in Fraser's Mag. May 605/1 I'll hire the small Clarence.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 350/2 When..clarences, the cabs that carry four, come in, they cooked the hackney-coachmen in no time.
1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 230 I have now set up a nice little Brougham, or Clarence.
1864 Social Sc. Rev. 403 Four-wheeled Clarence Cabs, seated for four passengers within and one in addition to the driver without, have long remained without any material alteration.

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