1. a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage for hire
Usage: historical; chiefly French

Examples

• The tourists hired a fiacre to tour the old city.
• In 19th-century Paris, fiacres were a common form of transportation.
• The driver of the fiacre waited patiently outside the theater.
• She stepped down from the fiacre and paid the coachman.
• The fiacre clattered over the cobblestone streets.