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shooting brake en · NOUN
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(UK, historical) A vehicle used to carry shooting parties.
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A group of car body styles such as station wagon or coupé.
The car is a shooting brake, which was conceived to take gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs. While the name has been loosely applied to station wagons in general, the most famous shooting brakes had custom two-door bodies fitted to the chassis of pedigreed cars from the likes of Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce.
2006 November 26, William Diem, “The Shooting Brake Makes a Comeback”, in New York Times:
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