cabriolet /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/ noun2 •An automobile with a retractable top.Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears. — 2014 •(historical) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky. — 1829 formscabriolets