A wheeled vehicle for carrying a baby, pushed by a person walking; a baby carriage.
Short for 'perambulator,' from Latin 'perambulare' (to walk through or around). British English shortened it to 'pram' in the early 1900s, while Americans kept the longer form and eventually created 'stroller.'
The word 'perambulator' literally means 'something for walking around,' and people were actually taking their babies on long walks through parks and towns as a leisure activity in the Victorian era—the pram represented freedom and modern motherhood.
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