fiacre
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French fiacre. From Hotel Saint-Fiacre named after Irish saint Fiacre.
Noun [edit]
fiacre (plural fiacres)
- A small carriage for hire.
- 1942: 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. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 633)