fiacre
Americannoun
-
fiacres
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fiacre
1690–1700; < French; after the Hotel de St. Fiacre in Paris, where such carriages were first for hire
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
Says one minister: "We're going to take Paris out of the age of the fiacre."
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
Finally she sees the open fiacre and then “two merry faces.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
An endless procession of trucks, wagons, water-carts, and fiacres rumbles perpetually by.
From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
Tinker hurried his charge along the line of fiacres, and stopped at a victoria and pair.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar
Some are working at trades; some are playing at soldiers; some are keeping cabarets; some are driving fiacres.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
In that deserted quarter fiacres are rare, and there was some delay in Assunta's procuring one.
From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry
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 Erskine, Payne
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
