英和和英

語源

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

発音

• IPA: /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

名詞

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.

   Synonym: convertible

   • 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. (historical, originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

   Synonym: roadster

   • 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."

派生語

• cab

アナグラム

• bacteriol., carbolite