Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carriage drawn by four horses, of which the two near ones are ridden by postilions, and having two footmen at the rear: noting a style of driving.
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Examples
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Queen, accompanied by the royal children, in an open daumont.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918
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All this elegance, this essence of luxury, and this joy of life brought back to my memory the vision of our Bois de Boulogne, so elegant and so animated a few years before, when Napoleon III. used to drive through on his _daumont_, nonchalant and smiling.
My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884
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If one should happen to meet on the Champs Élysées a mail-coach or a _daumont_ [an open carriage, the French name of which has been adopted by the English, like
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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