voiture

[ vwah-too r, -tyoo r; French vwa-tyr ]

/ vwɑˈtʊər, -ˈtyʊər; French vwaˈtür /

a carriage, wagon, or other wheeled vehicle.

Origin of voiture

1690–1700; < French < Latin vectūra, equivalent to vect(us) (past participle of vehere to carry) + -ūra -ure

voilà, voiotia, voip, voir dire, voit, voiture, voivode, voix céleste, vojvodina, vol-au-vent, vol.

The conductor of our voiture amused us a good deal by his eccentricity.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium |Richard Boyle Bernard
It is evident that a voiture, engaged for the sole use and service of him who hires it, is "quite another thing."

Four Years in France |Henry Digby Beste
Voiture, with an apparent ease and grace, though without the natural air of the old writers, made it once more amusing.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 |Henry Hallam
In the court-yard of the hotel was standing the voiture, which had come in some twenty minutes before us.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 |Various

Voiture, born with an easy and frivolous, genius, was the first who shone in this aurora of French literature.

Letters on England |Voltaire