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[ vwah-toor, -tyoor; French vwa-tyr ] / vwɑˈtʊər, -ˈtyʊər; French vwaˈtür / SEE SYNONYMS FOR voiture ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural voi·tures [vwah-toorz, -tyoorz; French vwa-tyr]. /vwɑˈtʊərz, -ˈtyʊərz; French vwaˈtür/. a carriage, wagon, or other wheeled vehicle. Origin of voiture1690–1700; <French <Latin vectūra, equivalent to vect(us) (past participle of vehere to carry) + -ūra-ure Words nearby voiturevoile, Voiotia, VoIP, voir dire, Voit, voiture, voivode, voix céleste, Vojvodina, vol., vola Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for voitureThe conductor of our voiture amused us a good deal by his eccentricity. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium|Richard Boyle Bernard It is evident that a voiture, engaged for the sole use and service of him who hires it, is "quite another thing." Four Years in France|Henry Digby Beste Voiture, with an apparent ease and grace, though without the natural air of the old writers, made it once more amusing. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2|Henry Hallam In the court-yard of the hotel was standing the voiture, which had come in some twenty minutes before us. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Voiture, born with an easy and frivolous, genius, was the first who shone in this aurora of French literature. Letters on England|Voltaire
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