cabriolet

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

• IPA^(key): /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.
   • 2014, Porsche 356 Owners Workshop Manual 1957-1965

     Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears.

2. (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
   • 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

     Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:

     "I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."

• (automobile): convertible
• (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster

• cab

• bacteriol., carbolite

From French cabriolet.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.bri.oːˈlɛ(t)/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧bri‧o‧let
• Rhymes: -ɛ, -ɛt

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)

1. cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
2. cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

• cabrio

• → Indonesian: kabriolèt

Borrowed from Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +‎ -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfer, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ/

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)

1. a cabriolet carriage
2. a convertible car
3. a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
4. a Directoire style hat type

• coupé-cabriolet

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “cabriolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cabriolè

Unadapted borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

cabriolet f (invariable)

1. (automotive) cabriolet

   Synonym: cabrio

• cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

cabriolet n (plural cabriolete)

1. cabriolet

• cabriolet in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

cabriolet c

1. cabriolet (vehicle)

• cab

• cabriolet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cabriolet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)