fiacre
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of fiacre
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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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”).
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