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Definition of Chauffeur

Chauffeur

  1. Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.
  2. One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.

Chauffeur Quotations

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
Paul McCartney

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
Lillie Langtry

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
Paul Nurse

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
Michael Gove

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
Dennis Lehane
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Chauffeur Translations

chauffeur in Dutch is chauffeur, bestuurder
chauffeur in French is chauffeur
chauffeur in Italian is autista
chauffeur in Spanish is chofer, chofer

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