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Cabriolet   /kˌæbrioʊlˈeɪ/  /kˌæbrioʊlˈɛt/   Listen
Cabriolet

noun
1.
Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood.  Synonym: cab.






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"Cabriolet" Quotes from Famous Books



... were sitting down to table, M. de Monte Cristo arrived. He took his seat amongst them; they played, and I won. I am almost ashamed to say that my gains amounted to 5,000 francs. We separated at midnight. I could not defer my pleasure, so I took a cabriolet and drove to the horse dealer's. Feverish and excited, I rang at the door. The person who opened it must have taken me for a madman, for I rushed at once to the stable. Medeah was standing at the rack, eating his hay. I immediately put on the saddle and bridle, to which operation ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... was in rushing to retake this famous cemetery for the third time that Massena, wounded and carried in the box of a cabriolet, made this splendid harangue to his soldiers: "What! you rascally curs, who have only five sous a day while I have forty thousand, do you let me go ahead of you?" All the world knows the order which the Emperor ...
— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac

... man in Lithuania who wore French clothes. Everybody ran after him as after a buzzard;18 they envied the house before the threshold of which the Cup-Bearer's son halted his two-wheeled chaise, which passed by the French name of cabriolet. Within it sat two dogs instead of footmen, and on the box a German, lean as a board; his long legs, thin as hop-poles, were clad in stockings, and shoes with silver buckles; the tail of his wig was tied ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz



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