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- noun Plural form of
fiacre .
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Examples
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He is the patron saint of gardeners and the cabdrivers of Paris, whose vehicles are called fiacres, since the first coach for hire in Paris was located near the Hotel Saint-Fiacre.
St. Fiacre Argent 2006
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His vehicles were not called taxis, but "fiacres" as they operated from a depot near the shrine to St. Fiacre.
Article Source 2009
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Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses which, in
Les Miserables 2008
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She had watched the fiacres come and go, private carriages with their hoods up, public conveyances open to the elements, four-wheelers, gigs, all disembarking their passengers.
'Sepulchre' 2008
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The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated him.
Les Miserables 2008
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She had watched the fiacres come and go, private carriages with their hoods up, public conveyances open to the elements, four-wheelers, gigs, all disembarking their passengers.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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Where now fiacres and two-wheelers waited to ferry customers from one side of Paris to the other, twenty years ago had stood the barricades: iron bedsteads, upturned wooden carts, pallets and munitions boxes.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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They went in omnibuses and fiacres, people falling over the sides.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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They went in omnibuses and fiacres, people falling over the sides.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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They went in omnibuses and fiacres, people falling over the sides.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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