arch. Forms: 6–7 carroch(e, 7 caroch(e, caroach, carioch, 9 caroche, carroch. [a. 16th c. F. carroche, ad. It. carroccio, -ia, augmentatives of carro chariot:—L. carrus; see CAR. Cf. the parallel word CAROSSE.]
The 17th c. name of a coach or chariot of a stately or luxurious kind; the representative of the modern ‘carriage’ for town use. Obs. exc. Hist.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Carrucha, a carroch, a coche.
1606. Dekker, Sev. Sins, II. (Arb.), 20. They harnessed the Grand Signiors Caroach.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 42. To ride in a Carroch, or hanging coach.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 85. Seuen or eight stately Carochs of great personages attended at his Palace dore, to accompany him as he rode abroad in the euening to take the ayre.
1614. Cook, Tu Quoque, in Dodsley, VII. 28. The keeping of a coach For country, and a carroch for London.
1671. F. Philipps, Reg. Necess., 213. He did in the later end of the year 1666. prohibit the Duke of Newcastles Footmen the wearing of black Velvet Caps, (which the Kings Footmen usually do) whilst they attend his Caroch.
1678. Butler, Hud., III. III. 211. To mount two wheel’d Carroches.
[1823. Scott, Nigel, i. The court ladies … when visiting his shop in their caroches.
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, ii. When the caroches of the nobles had set down their owners.]
b. Used to represent It. carroccio, the car of state that accompanied the army of an Italian republic and bore the standard.
1840. Browning, Sordello, I. 263. We shut … in … all noises but The carroch’s booming.
c. attrib. (trade name of a kind of tricycle).
1885. Bazaar, 30 March, 1274/3. 46 in. Caroche Gem, central gear, front steerer … 44 in. Caroche tricycle, rear steerer.
