tilbury

noun

Definition of tilburynext
as in surrey

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  1. surrey
  2. landau
  3. phaeton
  4. stagecoach
  5. chariot
  6. hackney
  7. cab
Noun
  • When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.
    Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Definition of surrey
Noun
  • It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdown, joined Charles and Camilla in their landau, while her daughter Lady Sarah Chatto traveled in the third carriage with her husband, Daniel.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
Definition of landau
Noun
  • Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 13 June 2024
  • An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2022
Definition of phaeton
Noun
  • Also less than an hour from New York, this time by car or train, is the Bedford Post Inn which was built in 1762 and operated as a stagecoach stop between New York and Boston.
    Laurie Werner, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The original historic structure retains that throwback stagecoach vibe with rustic furnishings and multiple fireplaces, albeit now with an exceptional restaurant and craft cocktail bar.
    Sunset Magazine, Sunset Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of stagecoach
Noun
  • These are hardly the first or most extensive finds at the site, which included the discovery of a miniature bronze chariot likely used for transporting a cultic statue just last year.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Instead, human control of horses took off just prior to the explosive spread of horses and chariots across Eurasia during the early second millennium BCE.
    William Taylor, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of chariot
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Definition of hackney
Noun
  • Half an hour later and two blocks away, a third-grader named Cooper Stock was crossing West End Avenue at 97th Street (yes, yes, with the light and in the crosswalk), holding his father’s hand, when a cab driver whipped around the corner and crushed him to death.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In the passenger cab, the front fascia is made up of a steel and gold topographic map of the Furka Pass, where Bond played cat and mouse with Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of cab
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