berline

or ber·lin

[ ber-lin, bur-lin ]

noun

1. an automobile with the front and rear compartments separated by a glass partition, as some limousines.

Word History and Origins

Origin of berline¹

From French; berlin

Example Sentences

They stopped the berline, and I handed them over to them without hesitation, thinking that they had come from the Emperor.'

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Long legs may be in the abstract an advantage, but scarcely so in what was called in France une grande Berline.

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I am sorry to say that my berline, which was the envy of every one in Antwerp, was eventually captured by the Germans.

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The street was deserted save for de Robespierre's berline and his impatient postillion.

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It was an indifferent-looking berline, and my men were within an ace of allowing it to pass.

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