Fiacre, n.

(fe-ä'kr), n. [Fr., so named because the undertaker of these coaches, the Frenchman Sauvage, lived about the year 1650 at Paris, in a house called after St. Fiacre, a saint, who, being originally the son of King Eugene IV. of Scotland, went to France, and died there as a hermit in the year 670.] A kind of French hackney coach.