phaeton

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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. 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
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Noun
  • Capella is supposed to mark the position where the mama goat is sitting on the chariot driver’s shoulder, and that’s why it’s known as the goat star.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
  • Louella dies before the games begin when the District 12 chariot crashes during the tribute parade.
    Ashley Wolfgang, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • 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.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Noun
  • Really, all Morgan Plus 8s are much the same, and promise a perfectly delightful driving experience, offering the most traditional British roadster traits in a car that can easily keep up in modern traffic.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 May 2025
  • The combination is enough to push the merely 2,233-pound (dry weight) roadster from zero to 62 mph in just 4.8 seconds and reach a top speed of 149 mph.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Amazon is slashing prices on classic hammocks and Adirondack chairs, in addition to long chaises for sunbathing and rocking chairs.
    Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
  • Thankfully, most of the beaches here are not a place for cabanas or a chaise, but a blanket and cooler filled with local Imperial beers.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • Car and Driver reports that the Carrera 4S will likely start at $156,000, the Carrera 4S cabriolet at $170,000, and the Targa 4S at $171,000.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 July 2025
  • The cabriolet is only available with four seats.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Rear seats are standard on the leather-upholstered interior of the Targa and Cabriolet, but not the coupe.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 July 2025
  • Strain martini through a fine mesh sieve into a coupe or other martini glass.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2017

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“Phaeton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phaeton. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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