ambulette

noun

am·​bu·​lette ˌam-byə-ˈlet 

: a van or similar vehicle equipped for transporting people with limited mobility (such as wheelchair-bound patients) in nonemergency situations

At the hospital, I … arranged for an ambulette to bring us to the apartment.

—Roz Chast

Examples of ambulette in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One defendant was accused of parking his Mercedes with a phony Law Department placard in a space reserved for an ambulette that transported people with disabilities to a health care facility, investigators said. —James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017

Word History

Etymology

ambul(ance) + -ette

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above