The word of the day is barouche:
a four-wheeled carriage with a high front seat outside for the driver, facing seats inside for two couples, and a calash top over the back seat.
dialectal German Barutsche
Italian baroccio
"'This spell won't inure right away, so don't get jumpy. In fact, you must feign indifference to its initiation and outcome, forget it was ever uttered,' explained the footman - an amateur magician - to Dariushka during one of their thaumaturgical trysts that was recorded in Dariushka's diary as: 'Speak to Trask about peacock blue or Vertigo Forest green upholstery for the barouche box."
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
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