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fiacres

fiacres is the plural of fiacre.

Meaning of fiacre

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

Questions about fiacres

What is fiacres the plural of?
Fiacres is the plural of fiacre.

Words near fiacres in the dictionary

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

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