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• limousine — [ limuzin ] n. f. • 1836; de limousin 1 ♦ Vieilli Pèlerine d étoffe grossière que portent les bergers. Le berger « se dépouille de sa lourde limousine de bure » (Giono). 2 ♦ (1903) Automobile à quatre portes et six glaces. « La limousine noire [ …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Limousine liberal — (also latte liberal , limousine leftist , learjet liberal , lakefront liberal , Lexus liberal , MasterCard Marxist , parlor pink , white wine socialist or champagne socialist ) is a pejorative North American political term used to illustrate… …   Wikipedia

• Limousine — Sf geschlossenes Fahrzeug erw. fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. limousine m./(f.), ursprünglich: eine Art Mantel .    Ebenso nndl. limousine, ne. limousine, nfrz. (obs.) limousine, nschw. limousin, nnorw. limousin. Das französische… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

• Limousine — Li mou*sine , n. [Cf. F. limousine a kind of cloak, fr. Limousin, an old province in central France.] an elongated, luxurious automobile, designed to be driven by a chauffeur and often having a glass partition between the driver s seat and the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• limousine — (n.) 1902, enclosed automobile with open driver s seat, from Fr. limousine, from Limousin, region in central France, originally an adjective referring to its chief city, Limoges, from L. Lemovices, name of a people who lived near there, perhaps… …   Etymology dictionary

• Limousine — Limousine: Die Bezeichnung für einen Personenkraftwagen mit festem Verdeck (oder Schiebedach) wurde um 1900 aus gleichbed. frz. limousine entlehnt. Das frz. Wort bedeutet eigentlich »weiter, großer Schutzmantel« (wie ihn ursprünglich besonders… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

• Limousine liberal — Li mou*sine lib er*al, n. a wealthy or well to do person of liberal political inclination. It is sometimes used as a term of contempt for those espousing the cause of poor people, without having to endure the discomfort that their policies may… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Limousine — Limousine,die:⇨Auto(1) …   Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

• limousine — ► NOUN ▪ a large, luxurious car. ORIGIN French, originally denoting a caped cloak worn in the region of Limousin; the car originally had an outside driving seat and an enclosed passenger compartment that was likened to the cloak …   English terms dictionary

• limousine — [lim΄ə zēn′, lim′ə zēn΄] n. [Fr, lit., cloak, cape: from the costume worn in LIMOUSIN] 1. a former kind of automobile with a closed compartment seating three or more passengers and the top extended forward over the driver s seat 2. any large,… …   English World dictionary

• Limousine (race bovine) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Limousine. Limousine …   Wikipédia en Français