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plural stanhopes
A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back. quotations examples
Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.
1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital
A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other examples
An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron examples