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
He conducted traffic at the corner of Broadway and Duane, where a horsecar line ran.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2012
Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition.
From Time Magazine Archive
The horsecar is the poor man's private carriage, as carefully fashioned for his convenience, as tidy and comfortable and comely, as if it cost him hundreds of dollars, instead of the daily sixpence.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various
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