phaeton

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Recent Examples of phaeton 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 Still, the industry used carriage types to describe its models, like phaeton (a light, open carriage), shooting brake (a carriage meant for gamekeepers and sportsmen) and cabriolet (a light carriage with a foldable hood drawn by one horse). James Schembari, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
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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
  • 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
Noun
  • Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One such example can be found in the Latin mythological text Fabulae, in which the sisters of Phaethon are transformed into poplar trees as punishment for yoking his chariot without their father’s permission.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The body shell, fenders, and low-slung doors were hung on a ladder-type frame, primitive compared to the unibody MGB roadster that debuted in 1962.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Musk took then-California governor Schwarzenegger for a test ride in the prototype roadster.
    Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Vienna family also includes leather options and bigger chaise configurations.
    Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
  • If your patio needs an upgrade, this outdoor daybed is actually a three-in-one piece that triples as a chaise and sofa.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 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
  • The cabriolet was even more ungainly, and with the top down, looked as if a Sawzall had been taken to a coupe with little thought to the bodyshell that remained.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Per Car and Driver, the Carrera 4S coupe will likely be priced around US$156K, the Carrera 4S cabriolet at $170K, and the Targa 4S at $171K. Take those price estimations with a pinch of salt, though.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 July 2025

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“Phaeton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phaeton. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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