Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun a motor-car designed to carry four or five persons and made lighter in weight and shorter in length than the ordinary touring-car: usually also of less motor capacity than the heavier cars, to reduce cost both of manufacture and of operation.
- noun A carriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A carriage.
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- noun obsolete
vehicle
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fruit of the rats 'hard work can be seen on the table cloth on the hood of the "voiture" -- a portion of Ratatouille, fresh from the oven!
WN.com - Articles related to April Wine Events at Whole Foods Market, Cedar Center 2010
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The fruit of the rats 'hard work can be seen on the table cloth on the hood of the "voiture" -- a portion of Ratatouille, fresh from the oven!
WN.com - Articles related to April Wine Events at Whole Foods Market, Cedar Center 2010
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The fruit of the rats 'hard work can be seen on the table cloth on the hood of the "voiture" -- a portion of Ratatouille, fresh from the oven!
WN.com - Articles related to April Wine Events at Whole Foods Market, Cedar Center 2010
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The fruit of the rats 'hard work can be seen on the table cloth on the hood of the "voiture" -- a portion of Ratatouille, fresh from the oven!
WN.com - Articles related to April Wine Events at Whole Foods Market, Cedar Center 2010
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A car of such character, passing readily as the town-car of any family in modest circumstances, or else as what Paris calls a voiture de remise (a hackney car without taximeter) was a tremendous convenience, enabling its owner to scurry at will about cab-ridden Paris free of comment.
The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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In this journey, the understanding is the 'voiture' that must carry you through; and in proportion as that is stronger or weaker, more or less in repair, your journey will be better or worse; though at best you will now and then find some bad roads, and some bad inns.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Take care, therefore, to keep that necessary 'voiture' in perfect good repair; examine, improve, and strengthen it every day: it is in the power, and ought to be the care, of every man to do it; he that neglects it, deserves to feel, and certainly will feel, the fatal effects of that negligence.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Take care, therefore, to keep that necessary 'voiture' in perfect good repair; examine, improve, and strengthen it every day: it is in the power, and ought to be the care, of every man to do it; he that neglects it, deserves to feel, and certainly will feel, the fatal effects of that negligence.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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In this journey, the understanding is the 'voiture' that must carry you through; and in proportion as that is stronger or weaker, more or less in repair, your journey will be better or worse; though at best you will now and then find some bad roads, and some bad inns.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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"I liked bonbons too in those days, Miss Eyre, and I was croquant -- (overlook the barbarism) croquant chocolate comfits, and smoking alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the" voiture "I had given Céline.
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