Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A light, open, horse-drawn carriage with one seat and two or four wheels.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A light two-wheeled carriage without a top.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat
Etymologies
- From Stanhope ("a surname"). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built. (Wiktionary)
- After the Reverend Fitzroy Stanhope (1787-1864), British clergyman. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The vehicle was not exactly a gig, neither was it a stanhope.”
“Flasher, Esquire, was at Brixton, Surrey; the horse and stanhope of”
“We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
“The stanhope is all to atoms, and the farmer claims compensation for the gate.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
“He hurried me into the stanhope, gave the rein to his active grey mare, and making a detour towards Kingston, we soon left the crowd behind us.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
“But let us get on to the next inn, and send people after the stanhope and the mare.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
“Away she went, harness, shafts, and all, leaving the stanhope in the ditch, and sending Jack and me flying, like experimental fifty-sixes in the marshes at Woolwich, halfway across the meadow.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
“One day in the ring, Rawdons stanhope came in sight; Rebecca was seated by him.”
“When the carriages met again, he stood up in his stanhope; he raised his hand ready to doff his hat; he looked with all his eyes.”
“Before the inn there stood a yellow-wheeled stanhope with a horse which, from his manner of trembling all over for no conceivable reason, and manifest desire to stand upon his hind legs, I conceived to be a thorough-bred; and, hanging grimly to the bridle, now in the air, now on terra firma, alternately coaxing and cursing, was my friend the Semi-quavering Ostler.”
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The Barouche List: Need a Ride?
Bilby says I should have one. Even though most of these are on my other lists (the ones that weren't, I didn't really want to list).
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reesetee A light phaeton, usually with a high seat and closed back, named after Captain Hon. Henry FitzRoy Stanhope (ca. 1754-1828), son of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington. Oct 22, 2008