Stanhope definition

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A light, open, horse-drawn carriage with one seat and two or four wheels.
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A light, open carriage drawn by one horse, with two low wheels and one seat, popular in 19th-cent. England and the U.S.
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A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
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Noun

Singular:
stanhope
Plural:
stanhopes

Origin of stanhope

  • After the Reverend Fitzroy Stanhope (1787–1864), British clergyman

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Stanhope (“a surname"). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.

    From Wiktionary

Stanhope Sentence Examples

  • See Lord Stanhope, History of the War of Succession in Spain (London, 1832).

  • His collected works, with a memoir by his son-in-law, Samuel Stanhope Smith (who succeeded him as president of the college), were edited by Dr Ashbel Green (New York, 1801-1802).

  • His relative James Stanhope (afterwards first Earl Stanhope), the king's favourite minister, procured for him the place of gentleman of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales.

  • In 1715 he entered the House of Commons as Lord Stanhope of Shelford and member for St Germans, and when the impeachment of James, duke of Ormonde, came before the House, he used the occasion (5th of August 1715) to put to proof his old rhetorical studies.

  • Lord Stanhope quitted the Commons with a low bow and started for the continent.

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