cab·ri·o·let

(kăb′rē-ə-lā′)

1. A two-wheeled, one-horse carriage having a single bench seat and a folding top.

2. An automobile with a folding top; a convertible coupe.

[French, diminutive of cabriole, caper, from obsolete capriole, from Italian capriola, from capriolo, roebuck, from Latin capreolus, masculine diminutive of caprea, roe deer, from caper, he-goat.]

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cabriolet

(ˌkæbrɪəʊˈleɪ)

1. a small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two seats and a folding hood

2. (Automotive Engineering) a former name for a drophead coupé

[C18: from French, literally: a little skip, from cabriole, from Latin capreolus wild goat, from caper goat; referring to the lightness of movement]

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cab•ri•o•let

(ˌkæb ri əˈleɪ)

n.

1. a light, two-wheeled, one-horse carriage with a folding top, capable of seating two persons.

2. an automobile resembling a coupe but with a folding top.

[1760–70; < French]

Cabriolet

Originally, a two-wheeled, hooded, one-horse carriage, but also a four-wheeled, two-seated carriage with a very roomy back seat and a front seat intended to be used by a chauffeur. Later, shortened to “cab,” the name was used for carriages for hire.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

cabriolet - small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood

cab

carriage, equipage, rig - a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses

Translations

cabriolet

Cabrio Cabriolet Kabriolett Kalesche

avoauto

cabriolet

cabriocabriolet

cabriolet

n → Cabriolet nt

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Along the leafy road which skirted a narrow, tortuous stream in central Louisiana, rumbled an old fashioned cabriolet, much the worse for hard and rough usage over country roads and lanes.

As she sat in the old cabriolet beside the father of her dead lover, again there came to Octavie the terrible sense of loss which had assailed her so often before.

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Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a caleche.

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But now, as soon as the horses arrived, I hurried into a cabriolet, and bade farewell to my friend.

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In connection with that establishment, Mr Tip hired a cabriolet, horse, and groom, a very neat turn out, which was usually to be observed for two or three hours at a time gracing the Borough High Street, outside the Marshalsea court-yard.

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I could not defer my pleasure, so I took a cabriolet and drove to the horse dealer's.

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The other gentleman was plainly impatient to be gone, however, and as they hurried into the hackney cabriolet immediately afterwards, perhaps Mr Nickleby forgot to mention circumstances so unimportant.

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It was not what is currently denominated a dog-cart, neither was it a taxed cart, nor a chaise-cart, nor a guillotined cabriolet; and yet it had something of the character of each and every of these machines.

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Nobody was rendered more indignant by these proceedings than Mr Sampson Brass, who, as he could by no means afford to lose so profitable an inmate, deemed it prudent to pocket his lodger's affront along with his cash, and to annoy the audiences who clustered round his door by such imperfect means of retaliation as were open to him, and which were confined to the trickling down of foul water on their heads from unseen watering pots, pelting them with fragments of tile and mortar from the roof of the house, and bribing the drivers of hackney cabriolets to come suddenly round the corner and dash in among them precipitately.

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Le coffre quant a lui passe de 445 litres sur la version classique du T-Roc a 284 litres sur la version cabriolet.

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