fiacre
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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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As he left the house two elegant young men rode up in a fiacre.
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
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
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
Finally she sees the open fiacre and then “two merry faces.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
The gay bustle of the streets, the incessant roll of fiacres, the style of dress, the crowded cafés remind one more of Paris than of Germany.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
These good people visit us, in all sorts of ways; some on donkeys, some in cabriolets, some in fiacres, and by far the larger portion on foot.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
In that deserted quarter fiacres are rare, and there was some delay in Assunta's procuring one.
From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry
"A rich marquis should know only people with equipages; and yet, outside of two or three good carriages, the whole procession consists of fiacres and cabriolets."
From A Cardinal Sin by Sue, Eugène
He took his leave then, and Hartley, standing beside the window, watched him turn down the street, and at the corner get into one of the fiacres there and drive away.
From Jason by Forman, Justus Miles
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