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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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
Charlotte de Corday arrived in Paris, bought a kitchen knife for 40 sous, took a fiacre to Marat's residence where she was refused admittance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
The street outside was crowded with fiacres and cabs.
From The Lighted Match by R. F. Schabelitz
Every afternoon at five his Gargantuan figure came thrashing through the crowds of the boulevard, as an omnibus on its way scatters the fragile fiacres.
From Murder in Any Degree by Owen Johnson
To these must be added, cochers de fiacres in their glazed hats, bonnes in their high Norman caps, peasants, soldiers in their shakos, épiciers and garçons without number.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
"Please wait one moment only;" the detective touched a bell, and briefly ordered two fiacres to the door at once.
From The Rome Express by Arthur Griffiths
Everywhere there are squads of Nationaux, some learning the goose-step, others practising skirmishing between the carts and fiacres, others levelling their guns and snapping them off at imaginary Prussians.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere
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