voiturinn.
1. The driver of a voiture; a voiturier.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of coach
coachman1579
coacher1587
coachee1602
voiturier1763
voiturin1768
whipship1817
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 193 I contracted with a Voiturin to take his time with a couple of mules.
1790 H. Walpole Let. to Miss Berry 9 Nov. I am not surprised at your finding voiturins, or anybody, or anything dearer.
c1832 M. M. Sherwood in Life (1847) xxx. 524 We have to thank our landlord, who hurried us away under the pretence that the voiturin we had hired to drive us to Nice was obliged to be off that very morning.
2. A carriage for hire, a voiture.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hired carriage
remise1698
job coach1748
voiturin1768
slap-bang coach1797
fly1818
fly-by-night1818
fly-coach1818
job1819
fly-wagon1826
horse-fly1826
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 195 By the time my Voiturin got to the place, it wanted full two hours of compleating before a passage could any how be gain'd.
1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy II. 315 Mr. Sharpe's advice..of hiring voiturins through Savoy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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