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Coupe
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A coupe or coupé (/kuːˈpeɪ/, also US: /kuːp/) is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.[1][2]
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The term coupé was first applied to horse-drawn carriages for two passengers without rear-facing seats.[3][4] It comes from the French past participle of couper, "cut".[3]