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Definition of Hansom
1. Noun. A two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers.
Definition of Hansom
1. n. A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.
Definition of Hansom
1. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹
2. Noun. A Hansom cab; a carriage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hansom
1. a light carriage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hansom
Literary usage of Hansom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"hansom disposed of his rights to a company for the sum of 10000/., ... The company
got into difficulties, and in 1839 hansom took the temporary manage- ..."
2. Manners for Men by C. E. Humphry (1897)
"IN A hansom. IN handing a lady into a hansom care must be taken to protect her
... Should he be accompanying her in the hansom, she seats herself at when ..."
3. The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran by Adam Hamilton (1904)
"THE great veneration my father bore to his grandmother, Elizabeth Stonehouse,"
writes Mr Joseph S. hansom, "caused me to make researches," which we have ..."
4. The History of "Punch" by Marion Harry Spielmann (1895)
"... which appeared spasmodically and devoted itself prin- 1N A hansom WITH MARK
LEMON cipally to: electioneering (Drawn by 7. ..."
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