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carriage clock Noun a style of portable clock, originally used by travellers How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There are traditional "grandfather clocks," and also oddities such as small French carriage clocks that were taken on long carriage rides to keep time during the trip. Most sinister of these are a travelling actor with the stage name of Amade Volpay, who adopts the boys, and a fat pawnbroker worthy of Dostoyevsky, stuffing himself with rancid meat amid the carriage clocks and silver services of an empire falling ever deeper into hock. |
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