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hansom cab

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Noun1.hansom cab - a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengershansom cab - a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers
hansom
carriage, equipage, rig - a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
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Observing that they passed no other hansom cab, but only vans and waggons, and that not one of the thousand men and women she saw was either a gentleman or a lady, Mrs.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a hansom cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Later, on an anniversary, she was taken by her mother through the fog in a hansom cab, and given a large bunch of bright, sweet-scented flowers to lay upon his tomb.
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