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Recent Examples of carriage trade
Once the sale of the North Avenue Market complex was official a few weeks ago, a new arts partnership began envisioning a future for this 1928 landmark where Baltimore’s carriage trade once did their food shopping.
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Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
Bernheimer’s never sought the carriage trade.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
Responding to the needs of the modern carriage trade, who were by then traveling by means other than horse, the company began focusing on artisanal leather goods in 1921.
—Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
As the carriage trade swaps horses for horsepower, Gucci shifts focus from saddlery to luxury goods, marking the modern incarnation of the company.
—Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
The 11-story neo-Renaissance palazzo, right next to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and across Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center, remains a stalwart purveyor of luxury fashion to New York’s carriage trade after nearly a century.
—Joshua Levine, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
Vienna was a center of Europe’s cosmopolitan carriage trade at the turn of the last century, and the 7th district around Bernardgasse housed skilled craftsmen catering to a patrician circle.
—Sarah Medford, WSJ, 29 May 2018
And over the years, several have come from the carriage trade, including the one in New York City.
—Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2017
Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
Bernheimer’s never sought the carriage trade.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
Responding to the needs of the modern carriage trade, who were by then traveling by means other than horse, the company began focusing on artisanal leather goods in 1921.
—Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
As the carriage trade swaps horses for horsepower, Gucci shifts focus from saddlery to luxury goods, marking the modern incarnation of the company.
—Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
The 11-story neo-Renaissance palazzo, right next to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and across Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center, remains a stalwart purveyor of luxury fashion to New York’s carriage trade after nearly a century.
—Joshua Levine, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
Vienna was a center of Europe’s cosmopolitan carriage trade at the turn of the last century, and the 7th district around Bernardgasse housed skilled craftsmen catering to a patrician circle.
—Sarah Medford, WSJ, 29 May 2018
And over the years, several have come from the carriage trade, including the one in New York City.
—Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carriage trade
Noun
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Interestingly, this isn't to attract corporate clients or leisure travelers who want to upgrade from another part of the plane—the main aim is to attract the private jet set, who might be encouraged by ecological guilt and a desire to reduce the price tag of a private plane.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Weighing in at nearly eight pounds, 11 ounces and featuring more than 100 unpublished images, Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection (Abrams, October 3) gives insight into the man who most shaped public understanding of how the postwar global jet set lived.—
Ken Miller,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Sep. 2023
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The potent and volatile combination of high capital and popular radicalism, plutocracy and populism, characteristic of the American Right is a heritage of the global political and economic turmoil of the 1930s.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Sep. 2024
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American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Carriage trade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carriage%20trade. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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