phaeton
Americannoun
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any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
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a vintage automobile of the touring-car type.
noun
Etymology
Origin of phaeton
1585–95; special use of Latin Phaetōn, variant of Phaethōn Phaëthon ( def. )
Vocabulary lists containing phaeton
Example Sentences
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She died in 1895, collapsing as she stepped into a phaeton on yet another filial rescue mission.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
Next to it is a phaeton made in Albany around 1780 and first owned by the Revolutionary War hero Peter Gansevoort.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2013
Herman Melville, who was Gansevoort’s grandson, described the phaeton in his 1852 novel “Pierre.”
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2013
The tall, red-haired Virginian was elected a delegate to Congress last year—when just 32 and only recently a father—and he first appeared in Philadelphia riding in a phaeton and accompanied by two black servants.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Judith looked once at the phaeton and realised what it meant and began to scream, screaming and kicking while they carried her back into the house and put her to bed.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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