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
  • The session also featured the debut of a teaser trailer for the coming season, including the first look at Daniel Diemer as Tyson, the cyclops who befriends Percy (Walker Scobell), and a very brief glimpse at a chariot race at camp.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
  • And yet, everyone says the true standout scenes of the season actually take place back at Camp Half-Blood: the chariot races.
    EW.com, EW.com, 22 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
  • Charlotte leaned into its getaway sensibilities, dressing the Reid Classics four-poster bed in Thibaut’s Moselle print and the numerous windows, as well as the Lee Industries chaise, in their Garden Club pattern.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The chaise is essentially a cross between a sofa and a daybed and arrives with minimal assembly required.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • The 1951 Disneyland maps included a Ghost Town, Blacksmith and Gold Mine while the 1953 maps featured a School House and Wells Fargo stagecoach stop.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
  • John Ford’s film made a star of John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, a fugitive from the law who’s called upon to protect a stagecoach traveling through dangerous territory.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 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
Noun
  • The cab seats swivel around to create a four-person dining lounge, and the rear bench includes two seatbelts for carrying a total of four occupants when driving.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 July 2025
  • Victor, who somehow survived, was in the truck’s cab suffering seizures from chemical burns.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 23 July 2025

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“Curricle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curricle. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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