| 释义 |
‖ voiturier|vwatyrje|
[F., f. voiture voiture: see -ier.]
The driver of a carriage or coach.
1763Smollett Trav. v, I have hired a berlin and four horses to Paris, for fourteen Louis d'ors; two of which the voiturier is obliged to pay for a permission from the farmers of the post. 1782J. Douglas Trav. Anecd. I. 41 The voiturier said he was in haste, and opened the door of the diligence. 1818M. W. Shelley in Dowden Shelley (1887) II. 188 After dinner our voiturier comes. 1849J. Forbes Physic. Holiday iv. (1850) 44 We arranged..with a voiturier, to take us to Schaffhausen the following day. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 434 A few shopkeepers, indeed, and most of the voituriers are Italian. |