fiacre en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /fɪˈɑːkɹə/ (UK)
Etymology
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”).
Meanings
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(historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
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:The boy who might have fetched us a fiacre was now doing something else, so we had to go back to the station, and there we found only one, which was falling to pieces.
1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 633: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fiacres | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (16)
it fiacre (small carriage for hire) · pl fiakier (small carriage for hire) · ca fiacre (small carriage for hire) · pl dorożka (small carriage for hire) · de Fiaker (small carriage for hire) · hu fiáker (small carriage for hire) · pt fiacre (small carriage for hire) · pl drynda (small carriage for hire) · eo fiakro (small carriage for hire) · ro fiacru (small carriage for hire) · io fiakro (small carriage for hire) · cs fiakr (small carriage for hire) · ru фиа́кр (small carriage for hire) · mk фијаке́р (small carriage for hire) · fr fiacre (small carriage for hire) · sv fiaker (small carriage for hire)