horseless carriage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I.
noun
Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Early term for an automobile, at the time it was common that carriages were pulled by animals, typically horses, but the automobiles were not.
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Synonyms
Brass Era car