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Noun
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When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2024 -
The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.—
Tim Ebner,
Washington Post,
10 July 2024
Noun
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Stanhope next week: Doug Stanhope headlines the Cleveland Improv also on Thursday, June 29.—
Michael K. McIntyre,
cleveland.com,
22 June 2017
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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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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
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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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This hardpan is called caleche, and is equivalent to a 2-inch thick layer of concrete.—
Margaret Lauterbach,
idahostatesman,
31 Jan. 2018
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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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.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 May 2022
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The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.—
Doug MacCash,
NOLA.com,
17 Sep. 2017
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“Tilbury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tilbury. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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