Meaning of Irish car | Babel Free

Definitions

A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches.

archaic, historical

Examples

“Then we went, my Lord on horseback and the rest of us partly walking, partly on a most social machine, the Irish car, running upon two low, broad wheels, covered by a spacious platform rendered comfortable by carpeting fixed over it, and on the three sides not next the horse, boards to support the feet on.”

“I got into an absurd Irish car […] & drove straight off.”

CEFR level