fiacre

English

Etymology

From French fiacre. From Hotel Saint-Fiacre, named after the Irish saint Fiacre.

Noun

fiacre (plural fiacres)

1. (historical) A small carriage for hire.
   • 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.

Translations

small carriage for hire

• Catalan: fiacre m
• Czech: fiakr (cs) m
• Esperanto: fiakro
• German: Fiaker (de) m
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• Hungarian: fiáker
• Ido: fiakro (io)
• Portuguese: fiacre (pt) m
• Swedish: fiaker c

Anagrams

• carfie

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Portuguese

Noun

fiacre m (plural fiacres)

1. fiacre (small carriage for hire)