fiacre

plural fiacres

1. historicalA small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.

   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.

   1766, T[obias] Smollett, Travels through France and Italy. […], volume I, London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, page 94

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   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.

   1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC

   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.

   1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 633