Plural of droschka; small horse-drawn carriages or sleighs used in Russia and Eastern Europe.
From Russian 'droshka,' a light carriage, borrowed from Scandinavian languages, representing 19th-century Eastern European transportation.
Before cars existed, the droschka was Eastern Europe's equivalent of a taxi—colorfully painted, pulled by swift horses, and immortalized in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky novels as the vehicle of everyday city life!
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