limousine

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large luxurious car, often with a chauffeur and sometimes with a lengthened passenger compartment

   A black limousine waited outside the hotel entrance.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: a closed automobile body with a fixed roof and a separate or partly separated driver's compartment

   The museum displayed an early limousine with an enclosed rear cabin.

Borrowed from French limousine, originally 'of Limousin,' a region of central France. The automobile name is commonly linked to the hooded cloak worn there, because an early covered passenger body or driver covering suggested its shape.

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