"four-in-hand" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 62:",
          "text": "‘I must see him!’ he exclaimed; but at that moment the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came between, and when it had left the space clear, the carriage had swept out of the Park.",
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.",
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        "A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver."
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          "driver"
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        {
          "word": "coach-and-four"
        }
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "carriage",
          "word": "négyes fogat"
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          "ref": "2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 293:",
          "text": "He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.",
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        "A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie."
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        "(chiefly US) A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie."
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        {
          "word": "schoolboy knot"
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  "word": "four-in-hand"
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          "ref": "1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 62:",
          "text": "‘I must see him!’ he exclaimed; but at that moment the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came between, and when it had left the space clear, the carriage had swept out of the Park.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "carriage",
      "word": "négyes fogat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "four-in-hand"
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