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Cadillac1 definition

Ca·dil·lac (kad′'l ak′)

noun

Informal something that is the most luxurious or highest quality of its kind

Etymology: < Cadillac, trademark for a luxury automobile, after Sieur Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

Cadillac2 definition

Ca·dil·lac (kȧ dē yȧk′; E kad′'l ak′)

Cadillac, Sieur Antoine de la Mothe (än twȧn də lȧ mō̂t′) 1658?-1730; Fr. explorer in America

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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