(n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
(n.) a carriage in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My husband, Mr Wickham, and Captain Denny alighted from the post chaise and ran into Pemberley woods.
(2) The inn, which also served as a pub for locals and estate workers, was built to cater for visitors who were well enough off to arrive by stage coach or post chaise and pay 6d for a guidebook without which they had no hope of making sense of the garden, but were not grand enough to be invited to stay in the house.
(3) The lavender, reclining on a chaise longue is looking shifty and smoking a cigarette.
(4) Her house was like a studio, bits of art everywhere, big glass cabinet of curios and treasured possessions, a chaise longue – the works.” Her life was quieter later on and her neighbours didn’t necessarily know who Knight was or what she had achieved.
(5) Outside on the deck, a row of chaise longues are arranged perfectly perpendicular to the ocean-parallel pool.
(6) 'Poor Ben' Johnson says she has been keeping her head down since last month's Channel 4 documentary The Lady and the Revamp , which followed her after she took the editor's chaise longue at the journal for gentlewomen – still the place to find a nanny or under-gardener – last year.
(7) So 20 minutes later, I was summoned into this dark little room where Lee [as friends called McQueen] was lying on a chaise longue with his cigarettes and this woman, whom they called Mrs McQueen – she came in close to the shows, but took no part in the work, I think – was holding the lighter in case the cigarette went out.
(8) Wherever he was, whether sectioned in the madhouse, or home, sprawled on his red-velvet chaise longue, amid a blizzard of books, ash and paper, he was one of life's great learners, a modest student of the world he wrote about with such exhilarating power.
(9) In glorious 1960s Technicolor, she vamps it up in turbans and pearls on chaises longues, staring into the middle distance through layers of kohl and unlikely eyelashes.
Phaeton
Definition:
(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.) See Phaethon.
(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 rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next version of the luxury Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit to fit all passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
(2) The next version of the Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit for all vehicles.
(3) Greece’s new leader, they cried, was like the mythological figure Phaeton who, when given the reins of the sun chariot for a day, lost control and, almost destroyed the earth.
(4) On the surface, the World Economic Forum remains an ostentatiously exclusive event in a drab Alpine town, where icy side roads lead to shuttered Edwardian villas and every hotel has blacked-out Volkswagen Phaetons parked outside.
(5) An examination of seven proteins, presumably encoded by seven structural gene loci, in three local populations of the supposedly sedentary and colonial butterfly, Euphydryas phaeton revealed that three (43 per cent) were polymorphic with three to five alleles each.