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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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The detective approached the cab driven by Mendenhall and saw blood on his thumb.—
Sarah Nelson,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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Taxi brought together a true cast of New York City characters, sharing their lives in between customers at a cab company unlike any other.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
2 July 2025
Noun
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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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Amazon is slashing prices on classic hammocks and Adirondack chairs, in addition to long chaises for sunbathing and rocking chairs.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
9 July 2025
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Thankfully, most of the beaches here are not a place for cabanas or a chaise, but a blanket and cooler filled with local Imperial beers.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
8 July 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
Noun
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Ruby Miller said that Brad will have a chance to add his own twist to the menu at Carlo & Johnny, which opened in 2001 and is housed in a historic mansion that was once a speakeasy and a stagecoach stop.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Whereas oxen carts, wagons and stagecoaches once made travel of people or goods to and from Austin from anywhere else a discouraging task on muddy or dusty roads, suddenly the world waited at the city's front door.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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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
Cite this Entry
“Hansom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hansom. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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