voiture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   literary or historical, chiefly in French contexts: a carriage or other vehicle

   The elegant voiture stopped at the hotel beneath the gas lamps.

Borrowed from French voiture ('carriage, vehicle'), from Latin vectura ('carrying, conveyance'), from vehere ('carry'). English writers often retain the French word when describing French travel or society; it is a doublet of vecture and Italian-derived vettura.

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