cabriolet
IPA: kæbrioʊɫˈeɪ
noun
- An automobile with a retractable top.
- (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
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Examples of "cabriolet" in Sentences
- Also known as a cabriolet or roadster.
- He loved his cabriolet, champagne and women.
- The cabriolet was no longer part of the line.
- The formal cabriolet roof was added this year.
- A cabriolet version of the Samba was developed.
- It is currently available as a coupe and a cabriolet.
- There will coupe and cabriolet versions in two years.
- Cabriolet almost always refers to the car and not the carriage.
- The foldable top causes the body style to be classified as cabriolet.
- Cab is a shortening of cabriolet, reflecting the design of the carriage.
- I called a cabriolet, and the first thing the driver asked was, "Is the Bill carried?"
- The high-performance two-seater cabriolet is codenamed R2, and is being developed with VW.
- Presenting Hitler with a custom-built black Volkswagen cabriolet for his birthday in 1942 didn't hurt either.
- The second occupant of the cabriolet was a young girl, sixteen or eighteen years old -- sixteen rather than eighteen.
- After the performance the gallant Desmahis called a cabriolet and escorted the _citoyenne_ Blaise back to the _Amour peintre_.
- Lady Portmore; but in Stuart's case his cabriolet is an actual measure of economy; he sold those magnificent carriage-horses when he set it up.
- When a bourgeois of Boulogne takes the air, he goes in a one-horse chaise, which is here called cabriolet, and hires it for half-a-crown a day.
- The high-performance two-seater cabriolet is codenamed Audi's sister firm is also believed to be putting the finishing touches to a production version of the BlueSport concept car revealed at the 2009 Detroit Motor Show.
- There was a beech table half eaten into by a geometrically precise hummocky valley and a pair of side tables made from cardboard, with what looked like the ghosts of elegant 18th-century cabriolet-legged wooden tables hovering inside them.
- At Highgrove, he careened around the grounds on his bicycle or a skateboard, climbed so high up in trees that he had to be rescued by the local fire department, and totaled his miniature Jaguar XJS cabriolet—a birthday present from the manufacturer.