Horseless Carriage (Noun)
Meaning
An early term for an automobile; "when automobiles first replaced horse-drawn carriages they were called horseless carriages".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The early 20th-century motor enthusiast collected vintage models of the horseless carriage as a reminder of the vehicle's humble origins.
- The invention of the internal combustion engine played a significant role in the development of the horseless carriage.
- By the early 20th century, the term horseless carriage had already started to fade from use, replacing it with the term car.
- A city council of one prominent city debated whether the horseless carriage would be of benefit or hindrance to the streets of 1900.
- Historians consider the first horseless carriage to have been created in the late 1700s by French engineer Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.