1. horse-drawn carriages for hire, especially those used in 19th-century Paris
Usage: historical; plural form

Examples

• The tourists rode through Paris in elegant fiacres.
• Fiacres were a common sight on the boulevards before automobiles.
• The driver of one of the fiacres called out to potential passengers.
• Many writers described the romantic atmosphere of riding in fiacres.
• The museum displayed a collection of antique fiacres from the 1800s.