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- noun Plural form of
phaeton .
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Examples
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Max 2009
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Full-sized coaches stood beside lighter buggies, phaetons, rockaways, and chaises.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Full-sized coaches stood beside lighter buggies, phaetons, rockaways, and chaises.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Full-sized coaches stood beside lighter buggies, phaetons, rockaways, and chaises.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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In this room there are phaetons and victorias made as tiny as toys, or scaled as salesman's models.
From Hermes to Eternity Jacobs, Laura 2007
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Mrs. Widger books both families as the centre of attraction for her next party; and Mr. Widger, going on to expatiate upon the virtues of the Clickits, adds to their other moral qualities, that they keep one of the neatest phaetons in town, and have two thousand a year.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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Plenty of hackney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages — rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement.
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The year was 1854 and the forty miles of bridle paths and carriage roads were filled with elegant calèches, daumonts, phaetons; every afternoon, weather permitting, Empress Eugénie could be seen driving with her equerry.
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His carriage could barely move, so clogged were the streets with hackney coaches and chariots, phaetons, curricles, and sedan chairs.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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