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
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
All of you should just take your comments and replace "cars and flying cars", with "horse and buggy and horseless carriage".
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2017
He named it Foolish Carriage because, he said, it was foolish for any man with as many children as he to think he could afford a horseless carriage.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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