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/ʃoʊfˈər/ /ʃˈoʊfər/ Listen

noun

Chauffeur n.

(pl.) (F. Hist.) Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

One who manages the running of an automobile or limousine; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chauffeur" Quotes from Famous Books

... his chauffeur. I guess that's what he was before he came here and we gentlemen have to associate with him. H'm! just an auto driver mixing in with gentlemen! It's ...

— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh

... chairman had started to leave, after his declaration. His automobile was purring at the foot of the steps. But he turned his back on the expectant chauffeur, and tramped onto ...

— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... carriage. But for himself the two dark bays were waiting—heads erect, feet firmly planted on the solid earth. For he loved horses, and the Runnymede stables maintained the blood of King Charles's importations from Arabian chivalry. Besides, what manners, what sense, could be expected of a chauffeur, occupied with oily wheels and engines, instead of living ...

— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson

... supple as if he were going to leap or dance, and the skirts of his overcoat flapped in the wind. Behind came an indistinct, compact, howling mass, gentle and simple, arm in arm,—a child carried on a shoulder, a girl's red mop of hair between a chauffeur's cap and the helmet of a soldier. Chests out, chins raised, mouths open like black holes, shouting the Marseillaise. To right and left of the ranks, a double line of jail-bird faces, along the curbstone, ready to insult any absent-minded passer-by who failed to salute ...

— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain

... dapper little stranger, removing his silk hat and bowing profoundly to the two girls, "but would you mind taking me to the town? I—I—fear I have turned my ankle; not seriously, you know, but it is uncomfortable; so if I may sit beside your chauffeur the favor will ...

— Mary Louise in the Country • L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)

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