berline

American  

[ber-lin, bur-lin] / bərˈlɪn, ˈbɜr lɪn /

Or berlin

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of berline

From French; berlin

Example Sentences

From Lyons the traveller secured a return berline going back to Avignon with three mules and a voiturier named Joseph.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

He avoided the common conveyance or diligence, and insisted on travelling post and in a berline; but he could not bring himself to exceed the five-sou pourboire for the postillions.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

After setting up housekeeping in our berline, and putting all "to rights," the whips cracked, bells jingled, and away we thundered by the arrowy Rhone.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

From The Trampling of the Lilies by Sabatini, Rafael

He got into a caleche, the horses of which followed me so close that they touched the hind wheels of my berline.

From Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Stael-Holstein, Auguste Louis Baron de