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noun

Phaeton n.

A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.

See Phaethon.

(Zool.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas Phaeton syn. Melitaea Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; called also Baltimore.

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Etymology of 'Phaeton'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Phaeton" Quotes from Famous Books

... a much larger place than Downhill, on the post road to London. The mail-coach went through it, and thence post-horses were hired, and chaises, from the George Inn. The Carbonels possessed a phaeton, and a horse which could be used for driving or riding, and thus Captain Carbonel took the two ladies to return the various calls that had been made upon them. They found the Selbys not at home, but were warmly welcomed ...

— The Carbonels • Charlotte M. Yonge

... very well, and, at four o'clock, I met him according to appointment at a livery stables over the Iron Bridge. His vehicle was ordered out, it was a phaeton drawn by two longed-tailed ponies—altogether a very neat concern. We set off ...

— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat

... tone means obedience. She is not exactly cheerful, but neither is she cross. They drive in Marcia's pony phaeton. ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... is a huge coach-house containing the Queen's carriages, among them being a landau, sociable, driving landau, waggonette, and a driving phaeton with curtains, which was much used by the late Prince Consort. In one corner is a covered perambulator belonging to Her Majesty's grandchildren, and close to it stands the vehicle which is generally known as "the Queen's Chair," although it ...

— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... the Gods devoutly for having granted that Alexander should be born in the time of Aristotle, so that educated under his instruction he might be worthy to rule his father's empire. While Phaeton unskilled in driving becomes the charioteer of his father's car, he unhappily distributes to mankind the heat of Phoebus, now by excessive nearness, and now by withdrawing it too far, and so, lest all beneath him should be imperilled ...

— The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury • Richard de Bury

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