horseless carriage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of horseless carriage
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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“I was a horseless carriage until about 18 months ago, and I definitely saw the writing on the wall,” Aggarwal said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
It might have been that Father secretly took the meeting and the successful repairing of the horseless carriage as a test, but did not want to tell me.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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