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
In another incident, he took a horsecar driver to court for speeding.
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
In adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks.
From Time Magazine Archive
“That New York newspaper–with the picter of Jane Ann on a pony what looked like one o’ these horsecar horses?
From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Alice B. Emerson
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