limousine

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Reino Unido//ˌlɪm.əˈziːn//
//ˌlɪməˈziːn//

An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.

substantivo

1
An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
2
An automobile with such a body.
3
A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
4
An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.

Etimologia

Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm. First attested in 1902.

Formas

plural: limousines

limit · A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.limited · With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.limitless · Without limits in extent, size, or quantity.

limousine · An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.

limp · To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.limping · The motion of one who limps.lin · To desist, to stop, to cease.

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