Definition of "whirlicote" [whirl•i•cote]

• An open car or chariot. (noun)

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• "Lady Salisbury dreaded that Grisell should lie awake all night crying, so she said nothing till her whirlicote, as the carriage of those days was called, was actually being prepared, and then she went to the chamber where the poor child had spent five months, and where she was now sitting dressed, but propped up on a sort of settle, and with half her face still bandaged."
• "She travelled in a whirlicote, and there were others provided for her elder ladies, the rest riding singly or on pillions according to age or taste."
• "King Charles, riding on a handsome bay horse, closely followed by a conveyance such as was called in England a whirlicote, from which the Queen was handed out by her brother."