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fiacre

/fɪˈɑːkɹə/

fiacre noun: a small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.

Noun

fiacre (plural fiacres)

  1. (historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
    • On the road to Choissi, a fiacre, or hackney-coach, stopped, and out came five or six men, armed with musquets, who took post, each behind a separate tree.1766, T[obias] Smollett, Travels through France and Italy. […], volume I, London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, page 94
    • Poor Jim, with his arms folded and his little legs out in the open fiacre, drank in the sparkling Paris noon and carried his eyes from one side of their vista to the other.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC

Forms of fiacre

pluralfiacres

Origin of fiacre

Borrowed from French fiacre. From Hôtel de Saint Fiacre, a tavern in Paris operating a horse-carriage service from the 1640s, itself named after the Irish Saint Fiacre (c. 600–670 CE), perhaps from Irish fiach (“raven”).

Questions about fiacre

What does fiacre mean?
Fiacre means a small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
What part of speech is fiacre?
Fiacre is a noun.
How do you pronounce fiacre?
Fiacre is pronounced /fɪˈɑːkɹə/ (UK).
What is the plural of fiacre?
The plural of fiacre is fiacres.

Words near fiacre in the dictionary

  1. FIA
  2. FIA curbing
  3. Fiacco
  4. Fiaccos
  5. fiacitabine
  6. fiacre
  7. fiacres
  8. fiador
  9. fiadors
  10. Fiallo
  11. Fiallos

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