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Definition of Horse-and-buggy
1. Adjective. Relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horse-and-buggy
Literary usage of Horse-and-buggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Benson commenced cussing Dishman, told him, damn him, he had torn up his horse
and buggy, and had him to pay. And he would repeat it several times, ..."
2. Mental Conflicts and Misconduct by William Healy (1917)
"Sometimes it makes you feel like you ain't going to bring the horse and buggy back.
Then sometimes I am going along when I see a horse and buggy, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogate's Courts of the by Willard Smith Gibbons (1905)
"The horse and buggy in question were kept upon the farm occupied by the ...
The administratrix testified that " Deceased gave the horse and buggy to Julia ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1914)
"He had a horse and buggy with him, hitched his horse in the yard and laid down
on the floor, and left at some time in the night unknown by the witness. ..."
5. Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War by David Dixon Porter (1885)
"I accordingly sent an officer to Smithville to procure me a horse and buggy—the
best he could find. The officer departed at once in a double-banked boat, ..."
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