Later Usage and Examples
The term shooting-brake was subsequently applied to custom-built luxury estate cars altered for use by hunters and other sportsmen. The New York Times said "the most famous shooting brakes had custom two-door bodies fitted to the chassis of pedigreed cars," citing Bentley, and Rolls-Royce as examples.
By the 1930s "the shooting-brake had adopted a more general purpose role, and the term 'estate car' was coined to describe a vehicle that could still carry a shooting party, yet at the same time be perfectly suitable for ferrying guests and their luggage to and from railway stations.
The terms shooting-brake and estate or station wagon became synonymous. The shooting-brake, which had been an "open carriage that carried shooting parties on large estates" became a general-use vehicle "for carrying master and servant" and the wagon became an estate car or estate, the current British term for station wagon.
The 2006 editions of The Chambers Dictionary (TCD) define the term shooting-brake as an archaic term for estate, or station wagon.
In France, a station wagon is marketed as a break, once having been called a break de chasse, literally translated: hunting break.
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