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
Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next morning Susan started for the office as usual, thinking the worst was over, but as not a single horsecar or stage was running, she took the ferry to Flushing to visit her cousins.
From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma
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