On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Bill Davies wrote:
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so can anyone define the
> word Coupe, and from where it is derived?
> Cheers,
> Bill.
Bonjour Bill, et les autre 'listers'! Vous may like to contemplate le
similarity of coupe to 'coupe'. Zis is zer froggy verb 'To cut'. Zerfore
zee coupe car has been cut down! Surely to be a coupe thre has to have
been a higher version? Who knows Monsieurs?
Au revoir Jean (Johnny) '70 Fastherald
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> > > Which brings us around to *gasp* the Saturn _THREE_ door
> > coupe!
> > Excuse me-
> > > but if it has _THREE_ doors (the third one not being a hatch
> > back)--is it
> > > _really_ a (by definition of the word) "coupe"?
> > >
> > >
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> / \ ______ ______ / \ 1959 Herald 948 Coupe Y128
> \__/ \ || / \__/ 1959 Herald 948 Coupe
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> | | | | 1973 Spitfire MkIV
> |_| |_| 1959 Standard Atlas Pickup
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