Cabriolet (carriage)
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The term cabriolet can refer either to a kind of horse-drawn carriage or to a type of automobile:
[edit] Horse-drawn 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.[1] 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:
One who drives a horse-drawn cab for hire is called a cabdriver[2] or jehu.[3] A cab horse or cabber is used for drawing a cab.
[edit] 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.[4]
