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  • noun automotive (Quebec English) a sedan-type car

Etymologies

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From the french, berline

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Examples

  • I have already sent Harry and John Browne to secure her release from Newgate, but now that I have met you, I will also send the royal berline to fetch her home.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • I have already sent Harry and John Browne to secure her release from Newgate, but now that I have met you, I will also send the royal berline to fetch her home.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • The berline was far too broad for our little alley.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • The berline was far too broad for our little alley.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • How many times I have read that event and wished the King and Queen had travelled in a smaller less conspicuous coach and not the large yellow berline described by historians.

    Capture at Varennes elena maria vidal 2009

  • It was an hour later when he heard the peculiar sound made by a superior traveling carriage, as the berline came near in which two ladies were sitting.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • He or his former mistress paid for the large green and yellow berline to carry them.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • He or his former mistress paid for the large green and yellow berline to carry them.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • He or his former mistress paid for the large green and yellow berline to carry them.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Schaffhausen, your lying upon straw, your black bread, and your broken berline, are proper seasonings for the greater fatigues and distresses which you must expect in the course of your travels; and, if one had a mind to moralize, one might call them the samples of the accidents, rubs, and difficulties, which every man meets with in his journey through life.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

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