voituriern.
/vwatjᵿˈjeɪ/ The driver of a carriage or coach.
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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
1763 T. Smollett Trav. v I have hired a berlin and four horses to Paris, for fourteen Louis d'ors; two of which the voiturier is obliged to pay for a permission from the farmers of the post.
1782 J. Douglas Travelling Anecd. I. 41 The voiturier said he was in haste, and opened the door of the diligence.
1818 M. W. Shelley in Dowden Shelley (1887) II. 188 After dinner our voiturier comes.
1849 J. Forbes Physician's Holiday (1850) iv. 44 We arranged..with a voiturier, to take us to Schaffhausen the following day.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 434 A few shopkeepers, indeed, and most of the voituriers are Italian.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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