voiture

From French voiture.

voiture (plural voitures)

1. (obsolete) vehicle
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 101

     As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, "Kiki," wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.

• outrive

From Old French veiture, from Latin vectūra, from the verb vehō (“I carry, I bear”).

• IPA^(key): /vwa.tyʁ/

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voiture f (plural voitures)

1. car (motorized vehicle)
2. (historical) car (wheeled vehicle usually pulled by a horse)
3. car (wagon)

• (Quebec) char

• voiture-balai

• camion
• car
• moto
• scooter

• “voiture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).