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; see origin at berlin

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

berline

The papers will be concealed in the berline, in a hiding-place which none know but herself.

From The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

At five o'clock she starts for Fontainebleau in her blue berline.

From The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

At last, after a thirty hours' journey by rail, we again entered the count's berline, drawn by post-horses, and eventually M. de Chalusse said to me: 'Here is Cannes—we are at our journey's end.'

From The Count's Millions by Gaboriau, Émile

The most famous berline was that used in the flight to Varennes.

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

If Gabrielle could have read the thoughts that were working in two busy skulls within that rumbling berline she might have, perhaps, gazed out of the window with less hopeful equanimity.

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis