four-in-hand

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Recent Examples of four-in-hand Most people who wear ties are familiar with the four-in-hand knot, and perhaps the Windsor and the half-Windsor. Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
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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
Noun
  • Now McVay and O’Connell, the third-year coach of the Minnesota Vikings, will face each other in the postseason for the first time when the Rams play host to an NFC wild-card game on Monday night at SoFi Stadium.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • When Malkin sat down with Mike Sullivan before the season, the head coach asked him to play smarter hockey — to eliminate the turnovers and the bad penalties.
    Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • Board track racing was the beginning of that culture and in terms of motorsport, think of board track racing as the missing link to the original Roman chariot races which pioneered wheeled sport.
    Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
  • As of this writing, Starman and his Tesla chariot have traveled around the sun four times.
    Jeremy Korzeniewski, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
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
Noun
  • Aging mansions, castles, stagecoaches, distraught women in nightgowns, and a madman in an asylum are all present and accounted for.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Elijah Robertson House Elijah Robertson, the nephew of Gen. James Robertson, built a stagecoach stop and tavern at 7704 Old Charlotte Avenue sometime around 1820.
    Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 18 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Galina and Caspar sat on the chaise overlooking the city.
    Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Underwood appeared on a luxurious chaise wheeled in by crew members before Morales showed up on horseback.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Once removed from app stores, users won’t be able to download updates to TikTok, and the app could become more buggy and difficult to use over time.
    Makena Kelly, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The city’s street traffic committee studied what happened when police officers stopped directing street cars, buggies and automobiles at busy intersections, including this one.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025

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