Also -as. [ad. Russ. тарантасъ, tarantasii.) A four-wheeled Russian traveling-carriage without springs, on a long flexible wooden chassis.
1850. (title) The Tarantas, travelling impressions of Young Russia, by Count Sollogub.
1876. Burnaby, Khiva, xxxvi. 342. The tarantass … resembled a hansom cab without the wheels,… fastened in a brewer’s dray.
1882. H. Landell, Through Siberia, I. 135. A roofless, seatless, springless, semi-cylindrical tumbril, mounted on poles which connect two wooden axle-trees … called by the general name of tarantass.
