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limousine /ˈlɪməziːn  / /ˌlɪməˈziːn /noun1A large, luxurious car, especially one driven by a chauffeur who is separated from the passengers by a partition: the Prince was whisked away in a black limousine...- The noise grows louder and she is blinded by the headlights of a black limousine, which is hurtling towards her.
- The Defendant engaged in frequent and expensive foreign travel with his wife, went out to numerous restaurants, and made lavish use of chauffeur driven limousines all at the Company's expense.
- Some were driven in black limousines with mirrored windows and no registration plates.
1.1chiefly North American A car licensed to transport passengers in return for payment, typically more luxurious than a taxi and not fitted with a taximeter. 1.2chiefly North American A passenger vehicle carrying people to and from an airport.They were met on the airport apron by a fleet of coaches and limousines which carried them across the border to Castle Leslie....- Audi made the well-intentioned mistake of taking us from and to the airport in flagship A8 limousines, not one of which rode as well as this.
- In a limousine leaving the airport, agent and client spoke for five or six minutes.
Origin Early 20th century: from French, feminine adjective meaning 'of Limousin', originally denoting a caped cloak worn in Limousin (see Limousin1): originally the driver's seat of the car was outside in a separate compartment, covered with a canopy. In French a limousine was a cloak with a cape, of a type worn in Limousin, a region of central France. People saw a resemblance between this distinctive garment and early forms of motor car in which the driver's seat was outside in a separate compartment covered with a canopy. The name, first recorded shortly after 1900, passed to large, luxurious cars driven by a chauffeur separated from the passengers by a partition. The word was abbreviated to limo in the 1960s, while in the 1980s the stretch limo made its appearance.
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