Complete Definition of "droshky"

English
Etymology
From Russian д�ожки (plural), diminutive of д�оги �wagon, hearse�, plural of д�ога �centre pole of a carriage�.

Pronunciation
IPA: /'dɹ��ki/

Noun
droshky

  1. an open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia

#:*1973: Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles? � Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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