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a velvet box on wheels that decided horses were just early horsepower
means A wheeled vehicle, especially a horse-drawn one for carrying people, or more broadly the act or manner of carrying something — including how one carries oneself.
from From Old North French 'cariage,' meaning the act of carrying, built on the verb 'carier' (to carry, to convey by cart) — itself rooted in Latin 'carrus,' a Gaulish-derived word for a wheeled wagon. So 'carriage' began as carrying in the abstract, then settled into the thing that does the carrying, and finally lent itself to bearing and posture — the carriage of the body.
- posture root
- how you 'carry' yourself shares the word's lineage
- royal holdover
- British monarchs still ride gilded ones for show
- typewriter ghost
- the carriage return key survived its sliding namesake
- shotgun seat
- 'riding shotgun' began guarding stagecoach drivers
- cinderella math
- a real pumpkin coach would weigh tons and collapse
cinderella's pumpkin carriage — disney's 1950 film, iconic transformed vehicle in animated fairy tale
irish jaunting car — traditional two-wheeled horse carriage with sideways seating, used in rural ireland for centuries