Noun: carousel
| Singular | carousel |
| Plural | carousels |
Sample Sentences
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That's one nice thing about carrousels,^([sic]) they always play the same song. [1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 25, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:]
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After collecting his suitcase at the baggage carousel, he left the airport.
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It struck me as a perky, whine-free name—the kind of standard-issue handle that could be found on necklaces hanging off carousels in roadside souvenir shops, next to the saltwater taffy. [2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Penguin, →ISBN, page 44:]
Nouns inflected like carousel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French carrousel, from Italian carosello, from Sicilian caruseḍḍu and/or Neapolitan carusiello. Uncertain. Some suggested a derivation from carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, but this does not fit the criteria of an appropriate morphological reconstruction. Not believed to be related to carousal. See: French Nouns '
carrousel', Italian Nouns '
carosello', Latin Nouns '
carrus'.