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stanhope
CIDE DICTIONARY
stanhope, n.
A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stanhope, n. a light open carriage for one with two or four wheels.
Etymology
Fitzroy Stanhope, Engl. clergyman d. 1864, for whom the first one was made
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