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raceabout

[ reys-uh-bout ]

noun

  1. a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of raceabout1

1895鈥1900, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase race about
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And a fully restored 1910 Simplex raceabout, with double-chain drive and 90-h.p. engine, was offered for a thumping $9,500 v. about $6,000 new.

Among them: a 1929 Bugatti Royale, a 1913 Mercer Raceabout, a 1909 American Underslung, a 1913 Peugeot, plus a mint collection of Bentleys. the $15,000 British sports car that Cunningham generally drives when he is not racing.

Thus, when a bright yellow 1913 Mercer Raceabout, model 35-J, with a "monocle" windshield, restored by retired Los Angeles Fireman Harry Johnson, was driven into the auction tent, it rated a round of applause.

Meantime, pictures of Mussolini in his raceabout appeared all over the world last week, except in Italy.

The reason for this late activity was very easy to understand, too, once one realized that Hogarty鈥檚 clientele鈥撯揺specially that of his Monday mornings鈥撯搘as composed quite entirely of that type of leisurely young man who rarely pointed the nose of his tub-seated raceabout below Forty-second Street, except for the benefits of a few rather desultory rounds under Hogarty鈥檚 tutelage, a shocking plunge beneath an icy shower, and the all pervading sense of physical well-being resultant upon a half hour鈥檚 kneading of none too firm muscles on the marble slabs.

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