Everything about Cabriolet totally explained
The term
cabriolet can refer either to a kind of horse-drawn carriage or to a type of automobile:
Horse-drawn carriage
See: Main article: Carriage
A
Cabriolet is a light, two-wheeled
carriage drawn by a single horse, with a folding hood, seating two people facing forward, one of whom is the driver. It has a large rigid apron, gracefully upward-curving shafts, and usually a rear platform between the C springs for a groom. The design was developed in
France in the early nineteenth century and quickly replaced the heavier
hackney carriage as the
vehicle for hire of choice in
Paris and
London.
The "cab" of
taxi-
cab or "
hansom cab" is a shortening of "cabriolet".
Other types of horse-drawn cab include:
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araba or
aroba: used in Turkey and neighboring countries
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araña: Mexican, two-wheeled
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bounder: four-wheeled
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gharry or
gharri: used especially in India
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minibus: light carriage, usually with a rear door and seats for four passengers; formerly used as a cab
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two-wheeler: two-wheeled cab or hansom
One who drives a horse-drawn cab for hire is called a
cabdriver or
jehu. A
cab horse or
cabber is used for drawing a cab.
Two-door convertible automobile
A
Cabriolet, also known as a
cabrio or
drophead coupe, is a type of
convertible — an automobile with a flexibly operating roof allowing for open or enclosed mode driving — specifically having only two doors.
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