See britchka on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1842, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (trans. C. J. Hogarth), chapter 2, in Dead Souls:",
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"ref": "1847, Xavier Hommaire De Hell, chapter 22, in Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c:",
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"ref": "1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 52, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:",
"text": "A britzka came up at this moment as the three men were speaking.",
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"ref": "1854, Leo Tolstoy (trans. C. J. Hogarth), Boyhood, ch. 2 – The Thunderstorm",
"text": "At length, Vassili got up and covered over the britchka, the coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak and lifted his cap to make the sign of the cross at each successive thunderclap, and the horses pricked up their ears and snorted."
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"ref": "2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 158:",
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