chauffeuse
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of chauffeuse
1900–05; < French, feminine of chauffeur. See chauffeur
Example Sentences
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At the outbreak of war she volunteered as a government chauffeuse but later transferred to the ambulance service.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2014
Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest.
From Time Magazine Archive
She would be chauffeuse to a gas-stove only.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
And the chauffeuse tossed up her chin and cried, "Not so much 'Thompson,' please!"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
That it is appreciated is shown by the fact that at Christmas, at this house, with its staff of Superintendent, cook, parlourmaid, housemaid and "tweeny," with one chauffeuse, there were forty relations of wounded staying.
From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
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