limousine
limousine 英 [ˈlɪməzi:n] 美 [ˌlɪməˈzin, ˈlɪməˌzin]
n. 豪华轿车
名词复数:limousines
- A limousine is a fancy car that's driven by a special driver. Some high school kids hire limousines to take them and their friends to the prom.
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- n. 豪华轿车
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1. a long black limousine
黑色豪华长轿车
- Limousine region in central France, originally an adjective referring to its chief city, Limoges, from Latin Lemovices, name of a people who lived near there, who were perhaps so called in reference to their elm spears or bows. The Latin adjective form of the name, Lemovicinus, is the source of French Limousin.
- limousine (n.) 1902, "enclosed automobile with open driver's seat," from French limousine, from Limousin, region in central France (see Limousine). The automobile meaning is from a perceived similarity of the car's profile to a type of hood worn by the inhabitants of that province. Since 1930s, it has been synonymous in American English with "luxury car." The word was applied from 1959 to vehicles that take people to and from large airports. Limousine liberal first attested 1969 (in reference to New York City Mayor John Lindsay).
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