coupe
noun
Also a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
coupés
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pluralof coupé.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The group’s members stood on a platform built on the back of a flatbed truck, playing about a dozen drums, including bass drums, congas and tenor drums known as coupés.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2018
Slowly driven coupés, with their elderly passengers, crawled along the road, and the wet-nurses pushed their perambulators.
From A Mummer's Tale by Charles E. Roche
He thought of the Avenue he had known, with its long lines of hansom cabs, its dashing broughams and coupés with jingling harness, livened footmen, everything sprucely up-to-date.
From His Family by Ernest Poole
In summer the coupés are replaced by light, open, four-seated carriages, with a hood and with leather curtains, to be used in case of rain; and they are really pleasant and comfortable vehicles.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
W.'s is grey satin, equally comfortable, with dressing-room, bath, etc.—behind these again a coupé for the maids—then a long carriage for the rest of the Mission with chairs, tables, etc, and small coupés.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
