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Recent Examples of carriage trade
Both industrialized what had previously been cottage industries—in Ford’s case, the artisanal carriage trade; in Seabrook’s, market gardening.
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John Seabrook
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Once the sale of the North Avenue Market complex was official a few weeks ago, a new arts partnership began envisioning a future for this 1928 landmark where Baltimore’s carriage trade once did their food shopping.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
As the carriage trade swaps horses for horsepower, Gucci shifts focus from saddlery to luxury goods, marking the modern incarnation of the company.
—Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
The 11-story neo-Renaissance palazzo, right next to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and across Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center, remains a stalwart purveyor of luxury fashion to New York’s carriage trade after nearly a century.
—Joshua Levine, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
And over the years, several have come from the carriage trade, including the one in New York City.
—Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carriage trade
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Eden Rock Cap Cana is already well known as a leading luxury destination that attracts the global jet set with its 67 luxurious villas, suites, and bungalows, along with glittering pools, a spa, a kids' club, and a private beach.—
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Chalamet clearly developed some impressive paddle talents on his own to be believable here, though aided by CGI as well, and these sequences are effective as the film jet sets to London, Paris, Tokyo, even Egypt as Marty schemes his climb into the big time.—
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The Populists opted for an alliance, promising a war on the plutocracy.—
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Indeed, with authoritarian plutocracy now ever more entrenched, the only restructuring going on is of another order entirely.—
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The American people are good and beautiful people.—
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This is a single man who is very, very handsome, clearly and is in a magazine with a bunch of other very beautiful people.—
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“Carriage trade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carriage%20trade. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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