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From the URL http://users.tinyonline.co.UK/gswithenbank/curiousc.htm is written:

"Short for the French cabriolet, a covered, horse-drawn carriage with two wheels. The French so called it from the Italian capriola, which in turn, came from capri, a he-goat, after which the Isl of Capri is named. The lightness of the carriage compared to the previous vehicles of transport was thus likened to the lightenss of goats leaping along the rugged hills of Capri. The cabriolet was introduced into London in 1823, where it soon became popularly know (sic) as a cab. The term persisted into present-day motorised transport"

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