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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 17 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHAUFFEUR (from Fr. chauffer, to See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat, a See also:

TERM

term primarily used in See also:

French of a See also:

man in See also:

charge of a forge or See also:

FURNACE

furnace, and so of a stoker on a See also:

LOCOMOTIVE

locomotive or in a steamship, but in its anglicized sense more particularly confined to a professional See also:

DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846– )

driver of a motor vehicle.

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