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
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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
It was the very loveliest of October days, and Paul began his adventures by a little accident to the voiture which should have borne him to the station.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
As the voiture rumbles by near a street-light, you catch a glimpse of a pink silk petticoat within and a pair of dainty, white kid shoes—and the glint of an officer’s sword.
From The Real Latin Quarter by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith
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
They were put into the voitures cellulaires, each knowing nothing of the presence of the others; even the police who were in charge of them, had no idea what prisoners they had in custody.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
About six o'clock the next morning two voitures cellulaires drove up, each attended by a light carriage containing an especial agent sent by the police.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
It requires to travel in Brittany to form any notion of the detestable vehicles, whether public or "voitures à volonté," in which travellers in this country are condemned to ride.
From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser
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 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
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