horseless carriage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of horseless carriage
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Then Frederick decided they should get into the horseless carriage business themselves.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2023
Mr. Swift notes that some news reports at the time considered the rover an “inevitable, almost comic product of the most automotive people on Earth,” although there was nothing inevitable about this extraterrestrial horseless carriage.
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021
The kooky inventor of a horseless carriage rivals a banker’s son for a liveryman’s daughter.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020
At the time, nobody worried that this new horseless carriage would dump carbon into the air.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018
Truth to tell, he had never handled a horseless carriage in his life, though he had a book on them and cut out articles whenever they appeared in the demon magazines and newspapers.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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