Other forms: limousines
A limousine is a long luxurious car with a driver. Hire a limousine, a stretch limousine, the limousine waited.
A stretch limousine is an ordinary car cut in half and lengthened, which is why they handle badly and why some places regulate them heavily. The name comes from the Limousin region of France, apparently from a hood the drivers wore.
1nounlimousineA long luxurious car with a driver.
“The bride arrived at the church in a white limousine.”
limousine is a car.
From Limousin, a region of France, apparently from the shape of a hood worn there resembling the early car's covered driving compartment.
Latin
Lemovices
French
limousine
English, today
limousine
Borrowed from French limousine., from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a cel-gau - tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm. 1902.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA