Crossword clues for chauffeur
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chauffeur \Chauf`feur"\, n. [F., lit., stoker.]
[pl.] (F. Hist.) Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.
One who manages the running of an automobile or limousine; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, originally "a motorist," from French chauffeur, literally "stoker," operator of a steam engine, French nickname for early motorists, from chauffer "to heat," from Old French chaufer "to heat, warm up; to become hot" (see chafe). The first motor-cars were steam-driven. Sense of "professional or paid driver of a private motor car" is from 1902.\n\nThe '95 Duryea wagon, which won the Chicago contest Fall, was exhibited at the Detroit Horse Show last week. Charles B. King, treasurer of the American Motor League, acted as "chauffeur," as the French say.
["The Horseless Age," April 1896]
1902, from chauffeur (n.). Related: Chauffeured; chauffeuring.
Wiktionary
n. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine). vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (gloss: driver of a motor car). 2 (context transitive English) To transport (someone) in a motor car.
WordNet
n. a man paid to drive a privately owned car
v. drive someone in a vehicle [syn: drive around]
Wikipedia
A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle , especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine. A woman employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle is a chauffeuse.
Originally, such drivers were often personal employees of the vehicle owner, but now in many cases specialist chauffeur service companies or individual drivers provide both driver and vehicle for hire, although there are service companies that just provide the driver.
Usage examples of "chauffeur".
It will help me to trust you, knowing that the Amn Al-Khass will have the bullets from the gun that killed my loyal and trusted chauffeur.
The freshmen in front of the car parted instinctively, but before the young chauffeur could put his threat into execution, Andy and his chums had reached the machine.
The last thing she heard was her father ordering Atlee to call Pelwin and have the chauffeur bring the new limousine.
With Atlee following him, toting a huge brief case, Rupert Sandersham stepped into the car, while the dapper chauffeur tipped his hat and bowed.
The doorman said a few words over the in-house comm circuit to the parking bays, where the ranks of hovercars waited with their chauffeurs.
The other was Cripp, the sallow chauffeur, who was ordinarily the only man who left the Beaverwood grounds.
He has taken the funny little Bengalese valet, who has been, and is to be, his chauffeur, to try the new car this morning.
Even though Bilotti was a captain, he chauffeured Castellano everywhere he went and hardly a day passed that the two did not meet.
The sound of the explosion was such that the mob inside the pub soon became the mob outside, looking for the gunshot victim but finding instead the drunken chauffeur wandering about the chopfallen car, kicking the good tires as if that might reinvigorate the flat without having to pump.
The door flew open, before the chauffeur, an elderly man in tunic and breeches, had time to hand out Cordula, who now ran like a ballerina toward Van.
The car was driven by a chauffeur in a white dustcoat with a blue collar.
With this purpose and a plan formed in his mind, he had returned to Fardles, to find his chauffeur struggling out of the ditch in the face of a contemptuous enemy.
Naked, Emily Lawrence crouched in the footwell of the chauffeur driven car.
When the big car pulled up in front of Gotham Court, where Carlton Sauber was a resident, Commissioner Weston stepped forward to congratulate the chauffeur.
Within a month, local chauffeurs, cooks and houseboys had swelled the ranks and Pissy Johnson, Cunning-Spider and Atherton, as well as two guys from School House who could speak Sotho, were roped in to teach on Saturday nights.