cabriolet

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

noun

  1. An automobile with a retractable top.
  2. (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
    Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky. 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital

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