‖ vettura
(vetˈtura)
[It.:—L. vectūra, conveyance, carriage, f. vect-, vehĕre to convey.]
A four-wheeled carriage used in Italy.
1792 [see next 1]. 1851 J. Gibson in Lady Eastlake Life iii. (1870) 45, I proceeded on my way in the vettura. 1883 C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) II. x. 152 We took a little one horse vettura and drove..to Ponte Grande. |