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noun

Phaeton 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.

See Phaethon.

(Zool.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas Phaeton syn. 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.

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Etymology of 'Phaeton'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Phaeton" Quotes from Famous Books

... too weak to resist, and in a few moments we are seated in Ida's stylish new phaeton; and Gabrielle's irrepressible ponies, under the guidance of Tourbillon herself, are dashing away at a pace that terrifies our sober Quaker neighbors beyond expression. Mamma has been solemnly warned against allowing Gabrielle to drive "those fearful horses;" but we ...

— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland

... from a one-seated phaeton, come alone to meet him—and she was the adorable, the perfect comrade. He thought jubilantly as he strode along the platform: "She's wonderful. Love ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... feel the delight of becoming acquainted with such a poet as Calderon in my mature stage of life. He has accompanied me here and I have just finished reading "Apollo and Klymene," with its continuation "Phaeton." Has Calderon ever been near to you? I can unfortunately approach him through a translation only on account of my great want of gift for languages (as for music). However, Schlegel, Gries, who has translated the ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... accepted. A few days after his arrival, Mrs. Archer, who was a pretty, lively little coquette, not in the least sobered by some thirteen years of married life, offered to drive him out in her little phaeton. "John has just given me a new pair of ponies," she said—"such perfect beauties and so gentle that I long to drive them." So the pretty, stylish equipage, with its fair driver and faultless appointments, made its first appearance ...

— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.

... misery; but even the possibility of seeking for himself solace, by means not altogether worthy, had never dawned upon him. Nor had he dreamed it of her! Yet the man who waved his hand from the box-seat of the phaeton with a courtesy seemingly real, but, under the circumstances, brutally ironical, was Thorndyke, and the woman who sat ...

— Berenice • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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