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horseless - definition and meaning
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from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective archaic, except in a historical context. Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; -- said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.. It was used primarily in the term “horseless carriage”, to refer to automobiles. By the 1930's when automobiles had become more common than horses for transportation, the term had lost its currency.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective horse .
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We sent people to the moon, we ride in horseless machines and fly in the sky.
Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing 2009
These wondrous machines were referred to as horseless carriages.
Marc Hartzman: A Touch of Knowledge: The Horsey Horseless Marc Hartzman 2011
ldquo;People were calling the horseless carriage a folly.
Rocky Kistner: The Electric Car and the New Normal Rocky Kistner 2012
When automobiles first showed up, they were called horseless carriages.
Google's Horseless Carriage 2010
This is, by the way, a perfect example of what McLuhan called the horseless carriage syndrome: interpreting a novelty in terms of its predecessor.
Pffffft « BuzzMachine 2005
Alice Ramsey who in 1909, did the unconventional, which is somewhat an understatement, and drive across the United States in what then was called a horseless carriage.
Planet Debian 2009
What rolled off the assembly line was a kind of horseless carriage that roared like a lawn mower and polluted the air worse than a whole city block full of big Western cars.
What I Learned as a Car Czar Ion Mihai Pacepa 2009
i; day in a horseless was the way to freedom, he was running to doubt that he wanted any part of it.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
Just lately, said Lucy, hes been working on a new kind of horseless carriage.
Chapter 6 1918
"Just lately," said Lucy, "he's been working on a new kind of horseless carriage."
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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