| 词条 | Cabriolet (carriage) |
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A cabriolet is a light horse-drawn vehicle, with two wheels and a single horse. The carriage has a folding hood that can cover its two occupants, one of whom is the driver. It has a large rigid apron, upward-curving shafts, and usually a rear platform between the C springs for a groom. The design was developed in France in the eighteenth century and quickly replaced the heavier hackney carriage as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London. The cab of taxi-cab or "hansom cab" is a shortening of cabriolet.[1] Other horse-drawn cabs include:
One who drives a horse-drawn cab for hire is a cabdriver.[2] See also
References1. ^"At about ten o'clock in the evening I drove with Mr Eastlake, in a cab (the usual name given here to a cabriolet), to the British Institution..." (Gustav Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England vol. I [1838], extract in Frank Herrmann, The English as Collectors 1972, p. 227). 2. ^Cabdriver. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. 2 : Carriages|Animal-powered vehicles |
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