Also cariole. [a. F. carriole small covered carriage, = Pr. carriol, carriola, Sp. carriola, It. carriuola, med.L. carriola vehicula feminarum (Papias, in Du Cange), dim. of med.L. carra CAR.]
1. a. A small open carriage with a seat for a single person. b. A covered light cart.
1834. Beckford, Italy, I. 65. These goddesses stepping into a car, vulgarly called a cariole.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 64. 334. Obliged to burn his carriole, or covered cart.
1868. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 41. Through the curtain of the cariole.
1878. Black, Green Past., xxxii. 257. The people shot by us in the light little carrioles.
2. A kind of sledge used in Canada.
1808. Pike, Sources Mississ., I. 68. I rode in a cariole, for one person, constructed in the following manner.
1820. Silliman, Tour Quebec, 337. The Carriole … gaily careers over the frost-bound river.
1833. Chamb. Jrnl., No. 67. 118. When ‘beautified’ with a little paint and a few trifling ornaments the sledge assumes the name of cariole.
Hence Carrioling vbl. sb., riding in a carriole.
1884. Sat. Rev., LVII. 636. All carioling is not of this agreeable character. The tourist may now and again have to drive for many hours together through pine-woods, gloomy, monotonous, and empty of sound.
