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horseless carriage
[ hawrs-lis ]
noun
- an automobile:
The horse and buggy were eventually replaced by the horseless carriage.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of horseless carriage1
Example Sentences
A great many investors backed the wrong horseless carriages around a century ago and lost their money.
Horse-drawn carriages are still everywhere, but there are also noisy horseless carriages, an invention so new there’s only recently a word for them: automobiles.
So he decided to get into the “horseless carriage†business.
Benjamin argues that “electric bike†is akin to “horseless carriage,†a transitional term for a novel technology that will almost certainly evolve into something else.
Cars that burn alternative fuels — remember diesels converted to burn used French-fry oil? — have been around since the earliest days of horseless carriages.
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