Without a carriage; lacking the ability to travel by carriage or not equipped with one.
Carriage + -less (without). The suffix -less from Old English indicates absence or lack of something.
In the 19th century, being 'carriageless' was a marker of social class—owning a carriage was so expensive that not having one clearly indicated your position in society, making this word carry real social weight.
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