curricle

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Recent Examples of curricle Such vehicles were nothing new: Chariots came from the Romans, the curricle chair applied to royalty, and the French post chaise became the one-horse shay. Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curricle
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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • High jinks ensue, including a hilarious scene in the Big Game with a scampering dog and a chariot chase.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 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
  • This one can be rearranged to suit any living room layout, and the chaise ottomans open to reveal storage underneath.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Ksamil Beach 7 is lined with chaise loungers available for rent, while Bora Bora Beach, a calm and small inlet, is especially popular with families.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The property was owned in the 1800s by one of the early Big Sur settler families, the Pfeiffers, who operated a lodge and cabins for visitors who came by stagecoach.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly 200 buildings in the historic downtown district are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including a 1779 stagecoach stop that today is the Old Talbott Tavern, the oldest bourbon bar in the world.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 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
Noun
  • Georgi then watched as the trio pulled away in their cab.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Will plays Tyson, who drove cabs before joining Dwight's crew as an enforcer.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Curricle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curricle. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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