Meaning of horseless carriage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I.
   historical
2. Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms.
   figuratively

Examples

“The movement for the introduction of horseless carriages is represented by two periodicals, the Horseless Age and the Motocycle, in the United States; the Autocar, in London; and La Locomotion Automobile and La France Automobile, in France.”

“Fanny Minafer had begun to talk to Lucy. "Your father wanted to prove that his horseless carriage would run, even in the snow," she said. "It really does, too."”

“horseless carriage thinking”

“The basic operational mechanisms and business practices were so new and strange, so utterly sui generis, that all we could see was a gaggle of “innovative” horseless carriages.”

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