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Look up: phaeton

  1. Phaeton
    Any of the various high, four-wheeled, graceful open carriages; also a type of touring car. The more fragile appearing spider phaeton often featured a rumble seat for coachman.
    Found on http://www.antiquetoys.com/glossary.html

  2. Phaëton
    Pha'ë·ton noun [ French phaéton a kind of carriage, from Phaéthon Phaëthon, the son of Helios. See Phaëthon .] 1. A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/68

  3. phaeton
    1. 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. ... 2. See Phaethon. ... 3. <zoology> A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, or Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. Phaeton
    • (n.) See Phaethon. • (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. • (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orang...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  5. Phaeton
    (from the article `Japan`) ...northern Honshu and placed it under its direct control, and in 1807 the bakufu also took direct control of both eastern and western Ezo for ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/53

  6. 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, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/53

  7. Phaeton
    The phaeton is an open four-wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by one or two horses. It was named after the sun-god Phaethon.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  8. phaeton
    open four-wheeled carriage
    Found on http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.h

  9. phaeton
    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.
    Found on http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/glossary.cfm

  10. Phaeton
    (carriage) `Phaeton` is the early 19th-century term for a sporty open carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair, typically with four extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body, fast and dangerous. It usually had no sidepieces in front of the seats. The rather self-c...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton

  11. Phaeton
    (hypothetical planet) `Phaeton` (or `Phaëton`, less often `Phaethon`) is the name of a hypothetical planet posited to once have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt. The hypothetical planet was named for PhaÃ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton



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