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馬車はいつ出るのでござんしょうな

Does this sentence mean "When will the horse cart come out?"

But what does でござんしょうな mean here? Should this be broken down into three parts as で + ござんしょう + な?

I know ございます means have. But ござんしょう becomes let's have?

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ござんしょう is ございましょう said with an accent. でございましょう is a politer version of でしょう. な is a sentence-end particle (the same な as in ~かな).

馬車はいつ出るのでござんしょうな。
≒ 馬車はいつ出るのでございましょうな。
≒ 馬車はいつ出るのでしょうな。

In accented speech, ございます can change to ござんす, ございやす, ごぜえやす, etc.

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