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buckboard

noun

Definition of buckboard

as in stagecoach

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Recent Examples of buckboard The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard. — Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017

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Noun

The route was once a path for stagecoaches and mail coaches known as the Great North Road, but by 1983 it had been superseded by the faster M1 motorway.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 June 2026
There was a stagecoach on blocks up at this steakhouse.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026

Definition of stagecoach

Noun

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.

— Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
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.

— Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023

Definition of barouche

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Thankfully, shopping for these open-air buggies is much more straightforward than shopping for any other vehicle.

— Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2026
The company operates driverless buggies that have no steering wheel or pedals, and feature four carriage-style seats that face inward, giving them a shuttle-like atmosphere.

— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 17 July 2026

Definition of buggy

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Journals and bottles of wine and sweaters and books, an extra bathing suit, a pair of shorts, left behind in taxi cabs and at friends’ places and in a small storage space on an island.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Eventually, like Odysseus, most people started to find their way home, hailing cabs and heading to the subway.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 July 2026

Definition of cab

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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

Definition of phaeton

Noun

The boundary-pushing roadster will be the last series-production vehicle to leave the marque’s Molsheim atelier with a W-16 in the engine bay.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 July 2026
The Polestar 5 sedan and Polestar 6 roadster the company also had in the works will likewise not reach American shores.

— Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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