Fiacre Definition

fē-äkrə
noun
In France, a small carriage for hire.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fiacre

Noun

Singular:
fiacre
Plural:
fiacres

Origin of Fiacre

  • From French fiacre. From Hotel Saint-Fiacre named after Irish saint Fiacre.

    From Wiktionary

  • French after the Hôtel de Saint Fiacre in Paris

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fiacre Sentence Examples

  • There St Fiacre built a monastery in honour of the Holy Virgin, and to it added a small house for guests, to which he himself withdrew.

  • Various relics of St Fiacre were given to princes and great personages.

  • French hackney-coaches received the name of fiacre from the Hotel St Fiacre, in the rue St Martin, Paris, where one Sauvage, who was the first to provide cabs for hire, kept his vehicles.

  • He was the coachman of the fiacre which drove the royal family from the Carrousel to the Porte Saint-Martin.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIA

Words Ending With

ERECRE

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fiacre

Words Starting With F and Ending With E

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With F6 Letter Words Ending With E

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