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carriages

/ˈkɛɹ.ɪd͡ʒɪz/ noun B2
  1. Used to specify the time that an event will end (e.g. when people would leave in their carriages) (dated)
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Bennet was perfectly satisfied; and quitted the house under the delightful persuasion that, allowing for the necessary preparations of settlements, new carriages, and wedding clothes, she should undoubtedly see her daughter settled at Netherfield in the course of three or four months.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 119 · B2
I _should_ say, one of her Ladyship’s carriages, for she has several.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 182 · B2
Collins for the knowledge of what carriages went along, and how often especially Miss De Bourgh drove by in her phaeton, which he never failed coming to inform them of, though it happened almost every day.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 195 · B2
He is rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 356 · B2

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