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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coupe

1834, from French coupe (18c.), noun use of past participle of couper "to cut (in half);" see coup. Modern use is from early 19c. carrosse coupe "cut-off carriage," a shorter version of the berlin, minus the back seat. First applied to closed two-door automobiles 1908.

Wiktionary
coupe

n. 1 an ice cream dessert; the glass it is served in 2 (context US English) A car with two doors (variant of coupé) 3 an area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.

coupé

n. 1 A two-seater car, normally a sports car 2 (context British English) A car body style

WordNet
coupe

n. a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment

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Coupé

A coupé (US coupe) (from the French past participle coupé, of the infinitive couper, to cut) is a closed two-door car body style with a permanently attached fixed roof, that is shorter than a sedan or saloon (British and Irish English) of the same model, and it often has seating for two persons or with a tight-spaced rear seat. The precise definition of the term varies between manufacturers and over time. The term was first applied to 19th-century carriages, where the rear-facing seats had been eliminated, or cut out.

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Usage examples of "coupe".

Jaguar XKE drophead coupe, flaming red, with red leather upholstery and wire wheels.

At last, when they turned a sharp corner, Gats cried out his disgust when he saw that the coupe had gained a full block by its last maneuver.

They had missed a prize last night - he and Gats Hackett - when they had failed to capture the occupant of the coupe.

The front of his tee had a graphic of a two-door lowrider coupe painted a vivid cranberry with lots of yellow pinstriped patterns.

As Patrick might have said, Olivia was as svelte as the sportiest coupe in the dealership, but never mind.

Patrick might have said, Olivia was as svelte as the sportiest coupe in the dealership, but never mind.

Norm recognized me with a wave and called something to the two guys at the gate as I parked beside the swoopy coupe.

The Cadillac was a white coupe with chrome louvres and it manoeuvred like a fighter plane up to the pump.

The coupe slithered between the posts, lurched around squishily on a sharp slippery rise, made it on the last gasp, and lunged toward the house through a flail of lasting, untrimmed branches.

Dryfoos took his hat and stick from him, but he made for the door so uncertainly that Beaton put his hand under his elbow and helped him out, and down the stairs, to his coupe.

Jilly's midnight-blue 1956 Cadillac Coupe DeVille was the love of her life, which Fred understood and graciously accepted, but her little Crassula argentea (Fred's birth name) remained a close second in her affections.

The vacation houses at Cocoa Beach were little boxes with front porches or "verandas" nailed onto them and a 1952 De Soto coupe with Venetian bunds in the rear window rusting in the salt air out back by the septic tank.

I would never forgive the girls for getting into those cream-colored coupes with the laughing boys.

The two men loaded several heavy black boxes into the rear deck of Gillian's coupes and started off.

Macks and Peterbilts, sedans, coupes, SUVs, pickups, vans, auto carriers, motor homes, tanker trucks raced westward, weaving back and forth from lane to lane, and without once slowing, Dylan plunged the Expedition through the gaps in traffic as expertly as an eagle-eyed tailor speed-threading a long series of needles.