Cabriolet

//kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An automobile with a retractable top.

    "Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears."

  2. 2
    small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood wordnet
  3. 3
    A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse. historical

    "Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky."

Synonyms

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automobilecabcabcarriageconvertibleconvertible

Example

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"Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears."

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

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