cabriolet

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

• IPA^(key): /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.
2. (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
   • 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

     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.

• (automobile): convertible
• (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster

• cab

• carbolite

From French cabriolet.

• IPA^(key): /kaːbrioːˈlɛt/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧bri‧o‧let

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)

1. cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
2. cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

• cabrio

From Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +‎ -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfr, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)

1. a cabriolet carriage
2. a convertible car
3. a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
4. a Directoire style hat type

• coupé-cabriolet

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “cabriolet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

cabriolet f (invariable)

1. (automobiles) cabriolet

• cabrio

cabriolet c

1. cabriolet (vehicle)

• cab