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Recent Examples of phaeton
Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
13 June 2024
An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
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Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 2022
Still, the industry used carriage types to describe its models, like phaeton (a light, open carriage), shooting brake (a carriage meant for gamekeepers and sportsmen) and cabriolet (a light carriage with a foldable hood drawn by one horse).
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James Schembari,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2017
Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
13 June 2024
An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 2022
Still, the industry used carriage types to describe its models, like phaeton (a light, open carriage), shooting brake (a carriage meant for gamekeepers and sportsmen) and cabriolet (a light carriage with a foldable hood drawn by one horse).
—
James Schembari,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for phaeton
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If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.
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Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.
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For example, last Wednesday, the game challenged me with a picture of a bronze sculpture that looked somewhat like a chariot.
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But, that could be accomplished with portable palanquins and chariots, Namboothiri said.
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The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.
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It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
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The 1,578 hp roadster is the latest one-off calling card from the French marque’s Sur Mesure division, which specializes in customization.
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The Polestar 5 sedan and Polestar 6 roadster the company also had in the works will likewise not reach American shores.
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Martha moved the antique wicker chaise below out to her driveway and sprayed it dusty rose to match the bedroom's walls.
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In a photo shared in her People cover story, which was shot by photographer Ruven Afanador, Shakira could be seen lounging on a brocade-upholstered chaise while modeling a nude cowl neck slip dress made out of nothing but mesh.
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The 718 Boxster is a brilliantly handling cabriolet with an assortment of power plants to choose from, a modern interior, numerous tech amenities, comfortable dimensions, and driver aids.
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The 1934 Packard LeBaron all-weather cabriolet was designed to be driven by a chauffeur.
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The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
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In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance.
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The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.
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“Phaeton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phaeton. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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