carrosse

Photo: BMW The word "coupe" comes from the French phrase carrosse coupé , which is to say, "chopped carriage," and sure enough, the Mini Coupe is just that.

Mini's Hot Coupe: Drive It—If Your Pal Buys One Dan Neil 2012

"_mon_ carrosse," instead of "_ma_ carrosse," the French word being derived from the Italian feminine, _carrozza_.

East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

"Messieurs, bonne nouvelle, Le carrosse de Law est en canelle."

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

Henri IV, passant en carrosse sur le Pont-Neuf à Paris, le nez dans son manteau de fourrure, vit un jeune Gascon se promenant gaiement avec un pourpoint de toile découpé au cou, et un petit manteau ouvert, comme si l'on eût été au coeur de l'été.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

Enfin nous en sortîmes pour retourner an souterrain, bornant nos exploits à ce risible événement, qui faisoit encore le sujet de notre entretien, lorsque nous decouvrîmes de loin un carrosse à quatre mules.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

On the ladies entering the carrosse, the gentlemen bidding adieu _pour le present_, saying they would walk, Sir Tilton stepping back a pace enquired of Vaura "If he should have the pleasure of seeing her on that night week at the de Hauteville ball?"

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

And the _carrosse_ rolls along, and Lionel with an irresistible craving, even if he comes to grief, which he tells himself there is no fear of, feels the pulse, as it were, of

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

Grosvenor Place will you find me, en descendant de votre carrosse.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

"How long a stay do you make here?" asked Bertram, giving her his arm to a _carrosse_.

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

Parisians know so well to-day rolled the gilded _carrosse_ of the king.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus