fiacre
English
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”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fɪˈɑːkɹə/
Audio (southern England) (file)
Noun
fiacre (plural fiacres)
- (historical) A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.
- 1766, T[obias] Smollett, Travels through France and Italy. […], volume I, London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], OCLC 733048407, page 94:
- 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.
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:
- 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.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 633)
- 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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Translations
small carriage for hire
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Anagrams
- carfie
French
Etymology
See fiacre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fjakʁ/
Noun
fiacre m (plural fiacres)
- fiacre
Further reading
- “fiacre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fiacre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjakr/[1][2]
- Rhymes: -akr
- Hyphenation: fiàcr
- (Tuscan pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfjak.ke.re/
Noun
fiacre m (plural fiacri)
- fiacre
References
- fiacre in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- fiacre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Portuguese
Noun
fiacre m (plural fiacres)
- fiacre (small carriage for hire)