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noun
1.
any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
2.
a vintage automobile of the touring-car type.
Origin:
1585–95; special use of Latin Phaetōn, variant of Phaethōn Phaethon
1585–95; special use of Latin Phaetōn, variant of Phaethōn Phaethon
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Phaeton
is always a great word to know.
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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phaeton
type of light four-wheeled carriage, 1742, from Fr. (1735), from Gk. Phaethon name of the son of Helios and Clymene, who tried to drive his father's sun-chariot but crashed after almost setting fire to the whole earth. His name is lit. "shining," from phaein "to shine, gleam," from phaos "light." Earlier
EXPANDas a name for a rash or adventurous driver (1593).
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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phaeton
open, four-wheeled, doorless carriage, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contained one or two seats, usually had a folding, or falling, top, and was owner-driven (i.e., it had no outside driver's seat). The most spectacular phaeton was the English four-wheeled high-flyer, the body of which consisted of a light seat for two, resting atop two sets of springs and reached by ladder.
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