barouche

Noun

a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top
A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
pl. -S a type of carriage

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From dialectal German Barutsche, from Italian baroccio, from Late Latin *birotium, from Latin birotus (“chariot”), from bi- (“two”) + rota (“wheel”). The spelling was altered in English as if the word had come from French. Doublet of britchka.

Scrabble Score: 15

barouche: valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
barouche: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
barouche: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

barouche is a valid Words With Friends word