fiacre
English edit
Etymology edit
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”).
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Noun edit
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, 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[1]:
- 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, published 2006, page 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 edit
small carriage for hire
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
See fiacre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fiacre m (plural fiacres)
Further reading edit
- “fiacre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈfjakr/[1][2]
- Rhymes: -akr
- Hyphenation: fiàcr
- (Tuscan pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfjak.ke.re/
Noun edit
fiacre m (plural fiacri)
References edit
- ^ fiacre in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ fiacre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fi‧a‧cre
Noun edit
fiacre m (plural fiacres)
- fiacre (small carriage for hire)