Definition of "vettura" []

• An Italian four-wheeled carriage, especially one let for hire; a hackney coach. (noun)

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• "He is surprised you did not send by Mr & Mrs Calcott5 a part or the whole of his things, as their vettura was at your service."
• "As the house and studio of Mr. Powers [27] were just on the opposite side of the street, I went to it, but found him too much engrossed to see me at the moment; so I returned to the "vettura," and we told Gaetano to carry us to a hotel."
• "Travelers now arrive from all quarters, in cabriolets, in calashers, in the shabby "vettura," and in the elegant private carriage drawn by post-horses, and driven by postillions in the tightest possible deer-skin breeches, the smallest red coats, and the hugest jack-boots."