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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.
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Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curricle
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Over the course of the next three days, our blue-and-gold chariot will carry us from Salt Lake City to Denver with overnight stops in Moab and Glenwood Springs.—
Hannah Towey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 May 2026
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The next year, the chariot race made its debut, in which inmates raced chariots pulled by bulls.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 May 2026
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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
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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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Miller custom designed a chaise, upholstered in a Pierre Frey burgundy wool check with extra legroom to accommodate Henkemeyer’s tall husband, Jim.—
Morgan Goldberg,
Architectural Digest,
8 May 2026
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Where a Rothko might have hung comfortably next to an interior decorator’s custom-upholstered chaise in the past, the chaise too must now be pedigreed.—
David Lê,
Curbed,
20 Apr. 2026
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Another historic gem, Black Mountain Inn, was built in the 1830s as a stagecoach stop.—
Kristy Tolley,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2026
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From there, letters were ferried by boat and trotted by stagecoach up to North Carolina, where important correspondence was loaded onto a steam locomotive to Virginia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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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
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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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Set in the restless night of Lagos, where one of the city’s few female cab drivers, Lady, survives by staying tough and focused.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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The series sees Rahma hop into a yellow cab and asks the driver to take him to their favorite place.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
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“Curricle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curricle. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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