Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who drives a voiture or carriage.
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Examples
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Avignon, where by one of the strange coincidences of travel he met his old voiturier Joseph “so embrowned by the sun that he might have passed for an Iroquois.”
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Avignon with three mules and a voiturier named Joseph.
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He had some private conversation with our voiturier, whose name was Claude, to whom he gave such a favourable character of us, as in all probability induced him to be wonderfully obliging during the whole journey.
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Il se fit remettre les trois louis, donna huit francs au voiturier pour prix de son bois, obligea celui-ci à payer deux francs à l'aubergiste, et il confia le reste à ce dernier qui courut le porter au Français.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Le déjeuner fini, le voiturier demande ce qu'il doit.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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With the greatest difficulty and only at an exorbitant price was he able to get horses and the promise of a voiturier who eventually sent his wife as driver in his place, being probably himself a suspected person who could not leave the city.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling
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Celui-ci, rendant son jugement sur les réclamations du voiturier, prononça en faveur de l'aubergiste.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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M. Durand, our voiturier, attended accordingly with one of his portly mares harnessed to a sort of cabriolet, very much resembling an
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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Le marché conclu, le voiturier se rend au cabaret pour y déjeuner, et se vante d'avoir trompé l'étranger, disant que son bois était à lui et qu'il avait le droit de le vendre le prix qu'il voulait, sans que personne y trouvât [1] à redire.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Le voiturier, s'apercevant qu'il a affaire à un étranger, lui demande trois louis de ce qui vaut tout au plus huit francs.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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