chauffeuse
Americannoun
plural
chauffeusesEtymology
Origin of chauffeuse
1900–05; < French, feminine of chauffeur. See chauffeur
Example Sentences
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At the outbreak of war she volunteered as a government chauffeuse but later transferred to the ambulance service.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2014
Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was as a member of this unit and as chauffeuse in the devastated regions that the writer received the impressions set forth in these sketches.
From Where the Sabots Clatter Again by Shortall, Katherine
Speaking of those who've given all their motors to the State and those who haven't, a new social danger has bobbed up for the latter—the chauffeuse.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
She seemed inexperienced as a chauffeuse; only by a hair’s breadth did she manage to avoid the man, and then she stopped the car.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
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