voiture
Americannoun
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voitures
plural
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Etymology
Origin of voiture
1690–1700; < French < Latin vectūra, equivalent to vect ( us ) (past participle of vehere to carry) + -ūra -ure
Example Sentences
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Here’s Pierre Rolland celebrating as he overtakes Stefan Küng in a time trial ... never mind the fact that he’s en voiture -
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2021
Already astounded by the miracle of their first train trip and a ride through Toronto in a "voiture," the four-year-olds* faced royalty calmly enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The devil! pourquoir ne allez pas?" said an unmistakably English voice from the interior of the voiture.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
At length I engaged a voiture, having most happily found one, as if made on purpose for my service, new, well-built and warm, with stout horses, and a respectable coachman.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
Three days after, and the phaeton was a voiture de remise in the Rue Lepelletier.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
One is surprised to find that Dodd would pay four daily visits to "les voitures et chevaux publics"—"the public carriages and horses."
From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George
It possesses five thousand cabs and over two thousand handsome and stylish voitures de remise.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
One of the section's voitures, a F.I.A.T., was standing ready.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
This astonishing mode of conveyance was known as a "cacolet," and replaced the "voitures" and "fiacres" of other resorts.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Secondly, the voitures mixtes, which may at will be hired from a livery-stable or stand or ply upon the public highway; these bear a red number.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
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