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
There has not been anything quite like this one on Broadway since the last horsecar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The palace horsecar attached to their train had already been shunted to a siding, and the ponies of the Overland Riders were found to have made the journey from the east without injury.
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
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