Etymology
Origin of horsecar
Example Sentences
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An Irish horsecar driver’s daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2020
He conducted traffic at the corner of Broadway and Duane, where a horsecar line ran.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2012
It is the direct decendant of the Third Ave Railway Co’s 42nd St-Harlem streetcar line, and it’s history can be traced back to a horsecar line that began service in 1885.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2010
Chic Sale loses his horsecar job for letting Jackie drive and is on his way to the poor-farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has so far thrown himself out of relation with American life that he describes a Boston horsecar or a New York hotel table with a sort of amused wonder.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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