corbillard

French

Etymology

Originally the name for the horse-drawn barge service between Corbeil and Paris, named from Corbeil, a town in France.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.bi.jaʁ/

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Noun

corbillard m (plural corbillards)

1. (obsolete) horse-drawn coach
2. hearse

Further reading

• “corbillard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.