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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.
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New York Times, 17 May 2022
New York Times, 17 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hansom
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Half an hour later and two blocks away, a third-grader named Cooper Stock was crossing West End Avenue at 97th Street (yes, yes, with the light and in the crosswalk), holding his father’s hand, when a cab driver whipped around the corner and crushed him to death.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Nov. 2024
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In the passenger cab, the front fascia is made up of a steel and gold topographic map of the Furka Pass, where Bond played cat and mouse with Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob.David Szondy, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
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These are hardly the first or most extensive finds at the site, which included the discovery of a miniature bronze chariot likely used for transporting a cultic statue just last year.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
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Instead, human control of horses took off just prior to the explosive spread of horses and chariots across Eurasia during the early second millennium BCE.William Taylor, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
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The asymmetrical vintage chaise was reupholstered in checkerboard Larsen fabric.Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2024
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Upholstered in leather or cowhide, this chaise is an icon of industrial aesthetic.Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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Also less than an hour from New York, this time by car or train, is the Bedford Post Inn which was built in 1762 and operated as a stagecoach stop between New York and Boston.Laurie Werner, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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The original historic structure retains that throwback stagecoach vibe with rustic furnishings and multiple fireplaces, albeit now with an exceptional restaurant and craft cocktail bar.Sunset Magazine, Sunset Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
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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
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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 26 Nov. 2024.
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