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cabriolet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

Meanings

1. An automobile with a retractable top.
   • Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears. 2014, Porsche 356 Owners Workshop Manual 1957-1965:
2. (historical, qualifier:originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
   • "I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma." 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:
   • Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky. 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

Forms

Deriveds

cab

Synonyms

roadster · convertible

Translations (35)

fi hevoskärryt (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · de Kabriolett (an automobile with a retractable top) · fr cabriolet (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · pt conversível (an automobile with a retractable top) · es convertible (an automobile with a retractable top) · es cabriolet (an automobile with a retractable top) · es descapotable (an automobile with a retractable top) · es cabriolé (an automobile with a retractable top) · ka კაბრიოლეტი (an automobile with a retractable top) · ro cabriolet (an automobile with a retractable top) · ca cabriolé (an automobile with a retractable top) · nl cabriolet (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · hu kabrió (an automobile with a retractable top) · ko 카브리올레 (an automobile with a retractable top) · mk кабриоле́т (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · de Cabrio (an automobile with a retractable top) · pt cabriolé (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · ru кабриоле́т (an automobile with a retractable top) · nl cabrio (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · de Cabriolet (an automobile with a retractable top) · cs kabriolet (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · uk кабріоле́т (an automobile with a retractable top) · bg кабриолет (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · fr cabriolet (an automobile with a retractable top) · ru кабриоле́т (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · nl cabrio (an automobile with a retractable top) · da cabriolet (an automobile with a retractable top) · nl cabriolet (an automobile with a retractable top) · cs kabriolet (an automobile with a retractable top) · fi avoauto (an automobile with a retractable top) · mk кабриоле́т (an automobile with a retractable top) · it decappottabile (an automobile with a retractable top) · bg кабрио (an automobile with a retractable top) · de Kalesche (a light carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse) · ja カブリオレ (an automobile with a retractable top)