phaeton

[ UK /fˈiːtən/ ]
NOUN
  1. large open car seating four with folding top
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How To Use phaeton In A Sentence

  • There were bailees, the two wheeled bullock carts with bright canopies, and palkees, and there were graceful English phaetons or buggies, drawn by well groomed Arab steeds.
  • Although provincial acting is not of the high class which conceals the art, this man's look beside him and behind him at vacant seats had incontestable evidence in support of his declaration, that the lady and gentleman had gone on by themselves: the phaeton was a box of flown birds. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • It was a 1937 Cord Phaeton convertible.
  • And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
  • It may be briefly defined as a phaeton without springs. Russia
  • For, despite its size, the Phaeton fairly skims along the highway, cornering smoothly, accelerating in an instant and slowing to a halt in another.
  • When Beekman purchased his coach from his agent in London, he was already the proud possessor of a chaise, a chariot, and a phaeton.
  • Sir Sedley Clarendel drove his own phaeton; but instead of joining them, according to the condition which occasioned the treaty, cantered away his ponies from the very first stage, and left word, where he changed horses, that he should proceed to the hotel upon the Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • Will you use the Phaeton to swat Gladstone's shells from the air? ANTI-ICE
  • [3972] Magna petis Phaeton et quae non viribus istis, &c., as James and John, the sons of Zebedee, did ask they knew not what: nescis temerarie nescis; thou dost, as another Suffenus, overween thyself; thou art wise in thine own conceit, but in other more mature judgment altogether unfit to manage such a business. Anatomy of Melancholy
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