hansom
See also: Hansom
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hansom (plural hansoms)
- (historical) A Hansom cab; a carriage
- 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”
- 1931, Francis Beeding, “6/4”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps[1]:
- The ghost of Selby stirred in him. His thoughts slipped back to the day when he had stolen from his well-appointed office to a waiting hansom—there had still been a good many hansoms in those days—and driven quickly to the docks.
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a Hansom cab
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