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Meaning of fiacre | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
fɪˈɑːkɹə

Definitions

A small horse-drawn carriage for hire; a hackney carriage.

historical

Equivalents

Bosanski фијакер
Čeština fiakr
Deutsch Droschke Fiaker
Esperanto fiakro
Français fiacre
Hrvatski фијакер
Magyar fiáker
Italiano fiacre
Македонски фијакер
Polski dorożka fiakier
Português fiacre
Română fiacru
Русский фиа́кр
Српски фијакер

Examples

“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.”
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.”
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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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