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fiacre definition

fia·cre (fē ä′kər; Fr fyȧ′kr')

noun

in France, a small carriage for hire: used in the 17th-19th cent.

Etymology: Fr, after the Hotel St. Fiacre in Paris, location of the first office for renting such vehicles

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