Fiacre (noun) (historical)
fee-ark-re
A small four-wheeled carriage for public hire.
Late 17th century: from French, named after the Hôtel de St Fiacre in Paris, where such vehicles were first hired out.
Example sentences
“We took a fiacre down to the Seine where he proposed!”

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