Many hundreds of years ago, shepherds in Limousin, France, developed a hooded overgarment to protect themselves from the rain and cold which they called a ‘limousine’.
In the 1900s when carriages were first emerging, the same motivation lead to a similar garment being used by the drivers of the carriages, as well as a cover being developed to create covered travelling compartments. There was also a Parisian coach builder from Limousin who may have been responsible for the word limousine applying to covered coaches, which were of course always chauffeur driven.
Learn more here… History of Limousines.
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