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phaeton::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | tourer, touring car |
| Type of | auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar |
Examples of phaeton
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Phaeton was too expensive and heavy, says George Peterson of consultants AutoPacific.
From the usatoday.com
Those attending the auction need not simply be looking for a phaeton, or light carriage.
From the kentucky.com
The most spectacular phaeton was the English four-wheeled high flyer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A sleek phaeton town car whooshes onto the 20th Century-Fox lot.
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They are seated in Queen Victoria's 1842 ivory-mounted phaeton drawn by two Windsor Grey horses.
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The Queen re-enters the phaeton and is driven before and behind the long line of assembled guards.
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He dies suddenly of a heart attack while driving his phaeton home.
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Apart from emergency vehicles, everyone gets about by bike or by horse-drawn, canopied phaeton.
From the express.co.uk
Phaeton was unable to control the fierce horses that drew the chariot as they sensed a weaker hand.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Touring car: large open car seating four with folding top
- Phaeton, Phau00EBton, Phaethon, or Phau00EBthon may refer to:
- Phaeton is the early 19th-century term for a sporty open carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair, typically with four extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body, fast and dangerous. It usually had no sidepieces in front of the seats. ...
- Phaeton (or Phau00EBton, less often Phaethon) is the hypothetical planet posited to have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt...
- A vintage automobile with two cross seats, usually four doors, and a folding top.
- Any light four wheel carriage with open sides drawn by one or two horse. Sometimes, the term was applied to a carriage that was driven by its owner rather than by a coachman.
- A fashionable open-air four-wheeled sporting vehicle with seating for two, popular with young gentlemen.
- Any of the various high, four-wheeled, graceful open carriages; also a type of touring car. The more fragile appearing spider phaeton often featured a rumble seat for coachman.
- Open four-door body style which lacks rollup side windows. Dual cowl Phaetons have two windshields
