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
As he left the house two elegant young men rode up in a fiacre.
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
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
The road was not very animated—few vehicles of any description, a few fiacres evidently bound for the Superga like us.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
The large numbers of pilgrims conveyed in hackney coaches to the French shrine of this saint at Breuil, caused those vehicles to be known as fiacres, a designation they still bear.
From A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett
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
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
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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