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Definition of Hansom cab
1. Noun. A two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers.
Definition of Hansom cab
1. Noun. A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, once used as a vehicle for hire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hansom Cab
Literary usage of Hansom cab
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Letters of Alfred Ainger by Edith Helen Sichel (1906)
"Have you seen the hansom cab ? Never, Drury, was thy stage meant For this " most
unkindest" stab— They have offered an engagement To a Cabman—and his Cab. ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"To come down from the general to the particular, I had always had a great desire
to drive a hansom cab: I wanted to know what it would feel like to be ..."
3. The Horseless Age (1896)
"Still, in its present usual form —that of a hansom cab sawed off short of the
dashboard and stuck on in front of a truck—it gives the occupante hopeless ..."
4. The Letters of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth (1882)
"... sometimes comes over me, on a railway—in a hansom cab—or any sort of conveyance—for
a few seconds, a vague sense of dread that I have no power to check. ..."
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