Phaeton [ Transport ]
… driver performs to others his bravery and daring, skill and agility and the female phaeton driver displays her fine clothes. Austen, in Pride and Prejudice (1813), gave the sickly Anne de Bourgh a ‘little phaeton and ponies’ to drive … St. James’s Palace. 7 By the eighteenth century, London’s beau monde paraded along this lit track dressed in their best clothes, riding in their ornate carriages, and meeting one another out in their carriages and speaking to passers-by. At … coat reflects elite men’s rejection, in the later eighteenth century, of magnificent dress for plainer, simpler clothes. 8 Onslow, lacking the full equipage of coachmen and grooms, blurs the distinction between master and servant, …
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