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Recent Examples of hansom
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hansom
Noun
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And Lyft is slated to launch its own self-driving cab service in Dallas, Texas, sometime in 2026.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 June 2025
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Musk appears to be on the verge of making his robotaxi vision a reality with a test run of a small squad of self-driving cabs in Austin, Texas, that began Sunday.—
Bernard Condon,
Fortune,
22 June 2025
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Capella is supposed to mark the position where the mama goat is sitting on the chariot driver’s shoulder, and that’s why it’s known as the goat star.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2025
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Louella dies before the games begin when the District 12 chariot crashes during the tribute parade.—
Ashley Wolfgang,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Modway Stopover Outdoor Patio Sunbrella Chaise $287 at Wayfair Forget cramped seating, at 28 inches wide and just over six and a half feet in length, this chaise provides ample room for comfortable lounging.—
Alexandra Kay,
People.com,
8 June 2025
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Position it between two of their Pacifica double chaises on your porch or by the pool for easy lounging all summer.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
6 June 2025
Noun
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The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.—
Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
30 May 2024
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Fun fact: this property was a stop on the original stagecoach route to Yosemite in the 1870s.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
30 Jan. 2025
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But in one hamlet of about 2,800 residents in the northwest corner of the Sunflower State, once little more than a stop on a stagecoach route, there is no shame in running for president and losing.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2025
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Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.—
Simon Webster,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2023
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Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.—
Danny McDonald,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 July 2018
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“Hansom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hansom. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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