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CABRIOLET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cabriolet mean?
• CABRIOLET (noun)
The noun CABRIOLET has 1 sense:
1. small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
Familiarity information: CABRIOLET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cab; cabriolet
Hypernyms ("cabriolet" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
Context examples
But now, as soon as the horses arrived, I hurried into a cabriolet, and bade farewell to my friend.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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