[F., f. voiture VOITURE: see -IER.] The driver of a carriage or coach.
1763. Smollett, Trav., v. I have hired a berlin and four horses to Paris, for fourteen Louis d’ors; two of which the voiturier is obliged to pay for a permission from the farmers of the post.
1782. J. Douglas, Trav. Anecd. (1786), 41. The voiturier said he was in haste, and opened the door of the diligence.
1818. Mrs. Shelley, in Dowden, Shelley (1887), II. 188. After dinner our voiturier comes.
1849. J. Forbes, Physic. Holiday, iv. (1850), 44. We arranged … with a voiturier, to take us to Schaffhausen the following day.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 434. A few shopkeepers, indeed, and most of the voituriers are Italian.
