Cabriolet - Cabriolet

...Originally, carriage rental was a business of renting out carriages for a half day, a day, or even a week or a month. Later, carriages that waited for customers in specific locations on the streets and took them to designated locations in the city were called fiacres, which later became specialized as hackney carriages. Then, in the early 19th century, a light carriage called a cabriolet was born, which was introduced to England around 1820 and became a hackney carriage called a cab. With the development of stagecoaches in the early 19th century, hackney carriages fell into disuse and were often questioned by authorities in terms of safety and public health.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "cabriolet" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…本来，貸馬車は半日とか1日，あるいは1週間とか1ヵ月と長期にわたり馬車を貸し出す商売であったが，街路の特定の場所に二輪馬車を用意して客を待ち，市内の指示されたところまでおもむく貸馬車を，後々までとくにフィアークルと呼び，それが辻馬車として特殊化したのである。そして19世紀初頭キャブリオレcabrioletという軽装二輪馬車が生まれたが，これは1820年ころイギリスにはいり，キャブと呼ばれる辻馬車となった。19世紀初頭の乗合馬車の発展によって辻馬車はおされぎみとなり，安全性や公衆衛生の面で当局からしばしば問題視された。…

※「キャブリオレ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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