Chauffeur
CHAUFFEUR (from Fr. chauffer), to heat, a term primarily used in French of a man in charge of a forge or furnace, and so of a stoker on a locomotive or in a steamship, but in its anglicized sense more particularly confined to a professional driver of a motor vehicle. (See also Brigandage.)
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
