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Large open car seating four with folding top
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phaeton
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WordNet
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n. large open car seating four with folding top [syn: touring car , tourer ]
Wikipedia
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Phaëton (LWV 61) is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully . Philippe Quinault wrote the French libretto after a story from Ovid 's Metamorphoses . It can be read as an allegorical depiction of the punishment awaiting those ...
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n. 1 (context vehicles English) a light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses 2 (context automotive English) a large open touring motorcar with a folding top
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phaeton \Pha"["e]*ton\, n. [F. pha['e]ton a kind of carriage, fr. Pha['e]thon Pha["e]thon, the son of Helios. See Pha["e]thon .] A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn ...
Usage examples of phaeton.
Giving up, she tied Acorn to the back, retrieved the offside ribbon, then climbed into the phaeton.
I had apair like that once, at Hartlea, though I did not have a high-perch phaeton, but a curricle.
We came back, and I was astonished to hear her telling her father that the phaeton was mine, and all he had to do was to put in the horses.
As I finished this sentence her father came in, and I left the house telling him that if I could not come the next day I would come the day after, and that we could talk about the phaeton then.
But the father, who was as greedy as most Jews are, said that if I liked driving he could sell me a pretty phaeton with two excellent horses.
In extreme agitation Erast Fandorin leapt to his feet and even rose up on the tips of his toes, gazing after the phaeton, which had slipped through ahead of the obstruction.
Tongas cut into her nerves, the stuffy gharry made her head ache, and the springless phaetons which abound in the East she avoided as the plague.
She would relish the phaeton, as she had relished the horse, but I knew that I was not quite such a fool as that.
He was very fond of money, and must have been angry that his daughter had not made me buy the phaeton by some means or another, for so long as the phaeton was bought the rest would be perfectly indifferent to him.
What had they done to the poor syce, she wondered, for this driver of the phaeton was surely not her careful servant.
The phaeton was there as well as the carriage for two persons, which this time was an elegant vis-a-vis, so light and well-hung that Donna Cecilia praised it highly when she took her seat.
Collins for the knowledge of what carriages went along, and how often especially Miss de Bourgh drove by in her phaeton, which he never failed coming to inform them of, though it happened almost every day.
He jerked his head round, heedless of the phaeton, and the next instant the wheels of both vehicles were locked, and much more violent expletives were issuing from the lips of the down-the-road man.
She made her way to the paddock where the horses were grazing and asked a postilion to help her harness them into the burgundy phaeton.
It was sent on its way by a battery of laser cannon set up on Phaeton, an asteroid whose orbit takes it closer to the sun than Mercury.