corbillard
French
Etymology
From Corbeil + -ard; originally the name for the horse-drawn barge service between Corbeil, a town in France, and Paris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔʁ.bi.jaʁ/
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Noun
corbillard m (plural corbillards)
- (obsolete) horse-drawn coach
- hearse
Further reading
- “corbillard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.