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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for phaeton
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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The session also featured the debut of a teaser trailer for the coming season, including the first look at Daniel Diemer as Tyson, the cyclops who befriends Percy (Walker Scobell), and a very brief glimpse at a chariot race at camp.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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And yet, everyone says the true standout scenes of the season actually take place back at Camp Half-Blood: the chariot races.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
22 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
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Bonneville, a dry lakebed on the border of Utah and Nevada, has long been an iconic location for land speed records, with Speed Week attracting around 500 hot rods, roadsters and motorcycles each year.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
4 Aug. 2025
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Originally painted white, the king of rock and roll had the roadster resprayed red after his female fans kept writing on it with lipstick.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
4 Aug. 2025
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Charlotte leaned into its getaway sensibilities, dressing the Reid Classics four-poster bed in Thibaut’s Moselle print and the numerous windows, as well as the Lee Industries chaise, in their Garden Club pattern.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2025
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The chaise is essentially a cross between a sofa and a daybed and arrives with minimal assembly required.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 July 2025
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
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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
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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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Any example of the gorgeous coupe that hits the market is noteworthy, but this one, despite being over a decade old, has only 4,400 miles on the odometer.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
6 Aug. 2025
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Unlike the coupe, the top comes off and tucks neatly away beneath a nearly seamless decklid that doesn't interfere with the sharp overall packaging.—
Alex Kalogiannis,
ArsTechnica,
22 July 2025
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“Phaeton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phaeton. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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