cabstand
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cabstand
Example Sentences
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The gray houses hunched their shoulders, lowered their heads, drew their mansard hats and gabled caps over their noses and stood like rows of patient horses at a cabstand under the gray downpour.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright
And did you ne'er hear of a jolly old Waterman Who at the cabstand used for to ply?
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
There was a woman walking on the square beside the cabstand.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de
Mechanically, however, he turned towards the Quai des Celestins, where there was a cabstand.
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
She had to walk some distance before reaching a cabstand, and by the time she did so her feet were wet.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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