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phaeton

also: phaetons

A light, fast four-wheeled open carriage; Henry Tilney is said to drive one with 'bright chestnuts,' a detail Thorpe uses to (wrongly) assure Catherine the Tilneys have already left Bath.

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Northanger Abbey Novels · 5 mentions