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Definition of Fiacre
1. n. A kind of French hackney coach.
Definition of Fiacre
1. Noun. A small carriage for hire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fiacre
1. a small carriage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiacre
Literary usage of Fiacre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"He was chiefly celebrated for the cure of a tumour since known as ' le fie de St.
fiacre.' He died on 18 Aug., but the year is not known. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"fiacre, SAINT, Abbot, b. in Ireland about the end of the sixth century; d.
18 August,. Having been ordained priest, he retired to a hermitage on the ..."
3. A History of Greater Britain as Well England as Scotland by John Major, Aeneas James George Mackay, Thomas Graves Law (1892)
"And Saint fiacre 2, of royal birth, led the austere life of a hermit in the
diocese of Meaux ... And when the Blessed fiacre was now well stricken in years, ..."
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