What is "cabriolets"

Usage examples of "cabriolets".

Air cabriolets and sky gondolas, hover pavilions and skimmer pods, glided and drifted overhead, elegant and graceful.

When the horses were in the stable there was a double line of rustic conveyances along the road: carts, cabriolets, tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every shape and age, tipping forward on their shafts or else tipping backward with the shafts up in the air.

When I slid the Saab into a parking slot, the place was already filling with the vehicles so loved by Southern dykes with money: apple-green Samurais, blood-red Jettas, peach Cabriolets, dignified gold Camrys, two silver Isuzu Troopers.

Loin of New York, then, and in the darkness pierced by the lanterns of cabriolets, and by the flicker of street lamps, M walked toward East Twenty-sixth Street while Adam lingered like a man at the scene of a railroad accident who has seen the bodies carted off but who is locked into place by emotions, not practical need, staring dully at the twisted metal and the bits of bloody cloth.

Dickie had made the grooms practise the change-over before they were despatched to the post houses but he couldn't duplicate the real problems they might face in an inn yard crowded with in going and outgoing stagecoaches, mail coaches chaises, barouches, cabriolets and curricles as well as slow gigs and lumbering farm carts, all wanting to change horses rapidly at the same time.