tilbury

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With which consolatory reflection the Major rose, stretched himself, yawned, sighed, stroked his moustache, fitted on his lavender gloves, and rang to order his tilbury round.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

To enter London in his tilbury, beaver skin gloves.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.

Camillo found the tilbury waiting for him; the street was now clear.

From Brazilian Tales by Goldberg, Isaac

Once, as she sat singing on an old stile, and knitting a stocking, a rough sort of gentleman, driving by in his neat little tilbury, stopped and listened to Ratie's song.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Let no one imagine that a patache bears that relation to a cabriolet which a dennet does to a tilbury; for ours, at least, would in England have been called a very sorry higgler's cart.

From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by Hughes, John