corbillard

French

Etymology

From Corbeil +‎ -ard; originally the name for the horse-drawn barge service between Corbeil, a town in France, and Paris.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.bi.jaʁ/
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Noun

corbillard m (plural corbillards)

(obsolete) horse-drawn coach
hearse

Further reading

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

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