brichka

English

Noun

brichka (plural brichkas)

  1. Alternative form of britchka.
    • 1816 February, “Account of the Journey of Some English Emigrants from Riga to the Crimea; by a Lady of the Party”, in The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register: […], volume XLVI, part II for 1818, number 1 (315 overall), London: […] [F]or Sir Richard Phillips, […] by J[ames] W[illiam] and C[harles] Adlard, […], published 1 August 1818, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:
      A brichka is in form just like a small English waggon, and upon wheels, about the height and size of the little Coleseed waggons; it is made with a calash, like our chariots, which can be thrown back occasionally; and an apron of leather fastening up to within a foot of the top of the head: withinside, two curtains of leather draw and shut you up completely from the cold.
    • 1891, Michael Zagoskin, translated by Jeremiah Curtin, “An Evening on the Hopyor”, in Tales of Three Centuries, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, pages 16–17:
      [I]t is clear that my uncle has guests. There is a dormeuse, a brichka, and it seems—yes, there it is!—the jaunty carriage of the ispravnik of Serdobsk.
    • 2005, Nikolay Gogol, translated by Ronald Wilks, “The Carriage”, in Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, London: Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 197:
      However, you would be hard put to find any travellers at all in the town of B—; only very rarely some squire owning eleven serfs and clad in his nankeen frock-coat clatters along the road in a contraption that is a cross between a brichka and a cart, peeping out from piles of flour sacks and lashing his bay mare with her following foal.
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