Cadillac

[ kad-l-ak; French ka-dee-yak ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

An·toine de la Mothe [ah, n, -, twan, d, uh, l, a, , mawt], 1657?–1730, French colonial governor in North America: founder of Detroit.
a city in NW Michigan.

The Metropolitan Opera is the old-school Cadillac of arts institutions.

“Adam and I rented a pink Cadillac and spent a super drunken weekend at Graceland about 20 years ago,” says Thompson.

By the way, a mint condition 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible can now sell for as much as $350,000.

Can the new guys at Cadillac pull off the same trick—reassert the core American appeal of the brand?

That, too, is the test for Cadillac—to resuscitate a legend.

Joy was off in the direction of the garage and in no time at all she was back in my Cadillac convertible.

From this it will be seen that, in the words of one of his enemies, Cadillac "was not quite in the odor of sanctity."

Cadillac had asked for five or six families as the modest beginning of a settlement; but not one had appeared.

Ponchartrain accepted the plan, and Cadillac returned to Canada commissioned to execute it.

Cadillac denounced the petition as seditious, threatened to hang the bearer of it, and deigned no other answer.

Browse