[Named in compliment to the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV.] A close four-wheeled carriage with seats for four inside; also attrib.
1837. Thackeray, Ravenswing, iii. I’ll hire the small clarence. Ibid. Woolsey … consented to take a place in the clarence carriage.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 360 (Hoppe). When clarences, the cabs that carry four, came in, they cooked the hackney-coachmen in no time.
1864. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 230. I have now set up a nice little Brougham, or Clarence.
1864. Social Sc. Rev., 403. Four-wheeled Clarence Cabs, seated for four passengers within and one in addition to the driver without, have long remained without any material alteration.
