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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERLIN , a four-wheeled See also:

carriage with a See also:separate hooded seat behind, detached from the See also:body of the vehicle; so called from having been first used in Berlin. It was designed about 167o, by a Piedmontese architect in the service of the elector of See also:Brandenburg. It was used as a travelling carriage, and See also:Swift refers to it in his See also:advice to authors " who scribble in a berlin." As an See also:adjective, the word is used to indicate a See also:special See also:kind of goods, originally made in Berlin, of which the best known is Berlin See also:wool. A Berlin warehouse is a See also:shop for the See also:sale of wools and See also:fancy goods (cf. See also:Italian warehouse). The spelling " berlin is also used by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott for the " birlinn," a large Gaelic See also:rowing-See also:boat.

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