hansom

variants or hansom cab

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Recent Examples of hansom In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance. New York Times, 17 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hansom
Noun
  • The service will subsequently arrive in more cities with thousands of self-driving cabs, notes CEO David Risher.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Listen to this article A 90-year-old woman was killed Wednesday on the Upper East Side after being struck by the driver of a yellow cab, and then run over by another driver, police said.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 13 June 2024
  • An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • Now evidence of trip is found One of the artifacts was a terret ring, which would have been used on Celtic chariots to help guide the horse reins, the organization said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The small asteroid, which is more than 3 miles in diameter, approaches so close to the sun that it was named for the son of the sun-god Helios, who in Greek mythology lost control of his father's chariot and set the Earth ablaze.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • There’s also the option to add upgrades like a movable chaise, an ottoman, bolster pillows, and/or a sleep kit.
    Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Made from weather-resistant materials, this chaise will last forever.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdown, joined Charles and Camilla in their landau, while her daughter Lady Sarah Chatto traveled in the third carriage with her husband, Daniel.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
Noun
  • Two decades later, the U.S. government gave the Southern Pacific Railway a right-of-way to build its railroad straight through the Coachella Valley and Cahuilla territory, piggybacking off early stagecoach routes.
    Michael Albertus, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Aging mansions, castles, stagecoaches, distraught women in nightgowns, and a madman in an asylum are all present and accounted for.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018

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“Hansom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hansom. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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