Tilbury
[tilbәri]
Definition
(n.) A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.
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Definition
n. a kind of gig for two.
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Examples
- Stultze brought home our dresses himself in his tilbury, on the morning of the masquerade, being anxious that we should do him credit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The following formula, prescribed by the late Dr. Tilbury Fox, is a very soothing application, and is a great favorite with ladies who have flushed faces: =Calamine Face Lotion. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- We saw Tilbury Fort, and remembered the Spanish armada; Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwich, places which I had heard of even in my country. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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