chauffeurship
English
Etymology
chauffeur + -ship
Noun
chauffeurship (uncountable)
- The condition of being, or employment as, a chauffeur.
- 1905, Automotive Industries, volume 13, page 582:
- Prospective employer - "How close to the edge of that cliff can you drive at speed?" / First candidate for chauffeurship - "Within two inches, easy." / P. E. - "And you?" / Second candidate - "I have driven within half an inch." / P. E. - "And you?" / Third candidate. - "Sure, I would keep as far away as I could, if it cost me the job.
- 1945, Ella Young, Flowering Dusk: Things Remembered Accurately and Inaccurately:
- We are climbing in an auto under Molly's efficient chauffeurship.
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