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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.
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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.
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Doug MacCash,
NOLA.com,
17 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hansom
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The passengers had to self-eject from the speeding cab.
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Firefighters extinguished a blaze that had consumed the truck’s cab and trailer, as well as debris along the railroad.
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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.
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An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
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The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
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The Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, in the municipality of Guareña, has turned up a remarkable specimen, an extraordinary bronze votive chariot, the likes of which has never been uncovered in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Like watching a chariot crash with a rider named Oedipus.
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Martha moved the antique wicker chaise below out to her driveway and sprayed it dusty rose to match the bedroom's walls.
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In a photo shared in her People cover story, which was shot by photographer Ruven Afanador, Shakira could be seen lounging on a brocade-upholstered chaise while modeling a nude cowl neck slip dress made out of nothing but mesh.
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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.
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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.
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There was a stagecoach on blocks up at this steakhouse.
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Another historic gem, Black Mountain Inn, was built in the 1830s as a stagecoach stop.
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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.
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Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
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“Hansom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hansom. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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