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Phaeton logo #10101) Auto 2) Automobile 3) French word used in English 4) Hypothetical impact event 5) Hypothetical planet 6) Light four-wheeled carriage 7) Machine 8) Motorcar 9) Tourer 10) Touring car 11) Vintage touring car
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Phaeton

Phaeton logo #10101) Motorcar
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Phaëton logo #10101) Opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
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phaeton logo #21475open four-wheeled carriage
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Phaeton logo #21000[carriage] Phaeton (also Phaéton) is the early nineteenth-century term for a sporty open carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair of horses, typically with four extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body, that was fast and dangerous. It usually had no sidepieces in front of the seats. The rather self-consciously...
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Phaeton logo #21000[hypothetical planet] Phaeton (or Phaëton, less often Phaethon) is the name of a hypothetical planet posited to 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 Phaëton, the son of the sun god Helios in Greek mythology, who att...
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Phaëton logo #21000[Lully] Phaëton (LWV 61) is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Philippe Quinault wrote the French libretto after a story from Ovid`s Metamorphoses. It can be read as an allegorical depiction of the punishment awaiting those mortals who dare to raise themselves as high as the `sun` (i.e. the Sun King)...
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phaeton logo #22641open four-wheeled carriage
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Phaeton logo #21002• (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 orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several ro...
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Phaeton logo #21003(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 ...
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phaeton logo #21003open, four-wheeled, doorless carriage, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contained one or two seats, usually had a folding, or falling, ...
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Phaeton logo #10141Any 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.
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phaeton logo #209731. 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-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows...
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Phaëton logo #20972Pha'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 is drawn by one or two horses. 2. See
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Phaeton logo #21217The phaeton is an open four-wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by one or two horses. It was named after the sun-god Phaethon.
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phaeton logo #21602four-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.
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Phaeton logo #22335A four-door open car (convertible). Most true phaetons had vanished by the late '30's, but as late as the '60's, a few models that roughly qualify for the term were briefly re-introduced by Lincoln. VW brought back the term in 2002 for their luxury saloon model.
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