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

They stood at a window, outside of which a handsome Vienna-made berline, with a count's coronet on the panels, was getting ready for a journey.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

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

As she left the room, there was a clatter of hoofs outside, and looking through the window, I saw the coroneted berline whirled rapidly away by four vigorous posters.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

As they raised him into the berline, however, he toppled forward, fainting.

From The Trampling of the Lilies by Sabatini, Rafael

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