waggonette

English

Etymology

From waggon +‎ -ette.

Noun

waggonette (plural waggonettes)

1. Alternative form of wagonette
   • 1892, Betham-Edwards, France of Today: A Survey Comparative and Retrospective, Tauchnitz publishers, page 28:

     At eleven o’clock a commodious waggonette, drawn by four horses and driven by soldiers riding postillion-wise, was in readiness to pick up officers’ wives and others having business at the Puy.

   • 1914, Thomas Hardy, 'At Castle Boterel' in Satires of Circumstance, Macmillan, page 121:

     As I drive to the junction of lane and high-way,

     And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette,

     I look behind at the fading byway