fiacre
Americannoun
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fiacres
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of fiacre
1690–1700; < French; after the Hotel de St. Fiacre in Paris, where such carriages were first for hire
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He has also moonlighted as a fiacre driver in Central Park and a boxer in Atlantic City, New Jersey, although his real ambition is someday to be a cop or fireman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Emperor regularly nipped down to Katherina's house for coffee after early morning Mass. Delighted Viennese fiacre drivers called him "Herr Schratt."
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps the dreariest city in Europe was Paris, principal shrine of all tourism, where sidewalk cafes stood empty most of the time and even the six remaining fiacre drivers looked in vain for customers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he left the house two elegant young men rode up in a fiacre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Settled back in the slow, smoothly rolling fiacre we moved up the Avenue de l'Opéra, passed the locked doors of the shops, their windows lighted, the Avenue broad and shiny and almost deserted.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
In that deserted quarter fiacres are rare, and there was some delay in Assunta's procuring one.
From Roderick Hudson by Henry James
They all trooped out of the café, and fiacres were called to take them to the house where the mask was held.
From The Eye of Dread by Payne Erskine
Nothing is more common than to see the drivers of cabriolets and fiacres reading in their seats; and I have even seen market-women, under their umbrellas, à la Robinson, with books in their hands.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
As the procession of omnibuses and fiacres moved down to the lower town, they were thrown into great excitement by seeing many of the streets and houses dressed with flags and other devices.
From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Oliver Optic
I have attempted to solve the difficulty by engaging by the week one of those archaic old horse chaises called fiacres.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood
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