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Meaning of shooting brake | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A vehicle used to carry shooting parties.
    British, historical
  2. A group of car body styles such as station wagon or coupé.

Examples

“The car is a shooting brake, which was conceived to take⟳ gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs. While the name⟳ has been loosely applied to station wagons in general, the most famous shooting brakes had custom two-door bodies fitted to the chassis of pedigreed cars from the likes of Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

shooting circle shooting gallery shooting glasses shooting ground shooting guard shooting iron

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