fiacre
Americannoun
plural
fiacresnoun
Etymology
Origin of fiacre
1690–1700; < French; after the Hotel de St. Fiacre in Paris, where such carriages were first for hire
Example Sentences
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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
Says one minister: "We're going to take Paris out of the age of the fiacre."
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
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
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